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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



OF THE PASTORATE 
OF THE 



REV. SAMUEL HARRISON GREENE, D.D., L.L.D., 



OF 



CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 



CORNER EIGHTH AND H STREETS NORTHWEST, 



CITY OF WASHINGTON. 



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CONTENTS. 



THE ANNIVERSARY. 

The Anniversary Sermon 
Calvary Baptist Church, 1879-1899 
Public Service and Reception 
Letters and Telegrams . 

ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Samuel Harrison Greene 

Calvary Baptist Church — present building 

Invitation . 

Kendall Branch Church 

Memorial Chapel building 



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THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 

A twenty years' pastorate is by no means a common 
occurrence in the history of churches in these days. 

It seemed proper, therefore, for this and other reasons, 
that the completion by Reverend Samuel Harrison Greene of 
twenty years of service as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church 
should be celebrated in a manner befitting its meaning and 
importance. 

At the regular quarterly meeting of the Church and 
Congregation held October 11, 1899, a general committee 
was appointed, with instructions to take action for the suit- 
able recognition of the anniversary, and with power to make 
all necessary arrangements. 

The closing public service of the twenty years' period 
was the Covenant meeting of the Church held Thanksgiv- 
ing evening, November 30, 1899. This meeting, a most 
tender and inspiring one and very significant of the occa- 
sion, will linger long in the hearts of those who participated 
in it. 

The various services of Anniversary week appear in full 
in the following pages. The thanks of the church are due 
particularly to Miss Anna M. Laise and her assistant, Miss 
Marie Horan, whose stenographic reports of the addresses 
and proceedings make it possible to present them now in 
this form. 

The Committee. 



" For I am determined to know nothing among you save 
Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. 1 ' — I Corinthians 2:2. 

Text of first sermon, December seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. 



"The Lord hath done great tilings for us, whereof we are 
jlad.' — Psalm CXXVI:3. 

Text of Anniversary sermon, December third, eighteen hundred and .ninety-nine. 



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ORDER OF SERVICE. 



Sunday, December 3, 1899, 11 A. M. 



Organ Prelude, Mr. B. Frank Gebest. 

Doxology (Congregation Standing). 

Invocation. 
Anthem — O, Lord, How Manifold are Thy Works. Bartlett. 
Responsive Reading — Forty-fifth Psalm. 
Hymn — Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. 

Prayer. 
Anthem — When Power Divine. Faure- Shelley. 

Offering. 
Hymn — The Church's One Foundation. 

Sermon by the Pastor. 
Prayer and Benediction. 
Organ Postlude. 

Communion Service. 
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HOW BEAUTEOUS ARE THEIR FEET. 

How beauteous are their feet 

Who stand on Zion's hill, 
Who bring salvation on their tongues 

And words of peace reveal ! 

How charming is their voice ! 
How sweet their tidings are ! 
"Zion, behold your Saviour King, 
Who reigns and triumphs here.*' 

The watchmen join their voice 

And tuneful notes emplo}^ ; 
Jerusalem breaks forth in song 

And deserts learn the joy. 

The Lord makes bare his arm 

Through all the earth abroad ; 
Let every nation now behold 

Their Saviour and their God. 

Isaac Watts. 



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THE ANNIVERSARY SERMON 

OF THE 

Rev. Samuel Harrison Greene, D. D., LL. D. 



The great fact in human life is God, and our relationship 
to him indicates the coming success or failure. The essen- 
tial difference in men is that of belief and unbelief; between 
the man who sees in God the hope of all good, and the one 
who does not. This difference is fundamental, since the 
ideas which dominate all life are determined at last b} 7 be- 
lief or unbelief in God. It is natural, therefore, that the 
believer should watch with the keenest interest any indica- 
tions of the divine presence and blessing, since into that is 
gathered all the possibilities of good. What is true of indi- 
vidual is also true of organized life. 

It is the special claim of the Christian Church that it is 
divinely organized, commissioned, and led. The psalmist 
exclaimed concerning God's relationship to his ancient 
people, " God is in the midst of her ; she shall not be 
moved; God shall help her, and that right early.'' As the 
organized disciples of Jesus, we do well to sometimes ask 
ourselves the question, " What marks of the true church do 
we bear?" "Are we carrying forward the message, spirit, 
and work committed to us by our Lord ? " The true proof 
of apostolic succession is found in apostolic spirit and work. 

The first sermon of the present pastorate was preached in 
this pulpit twenty years ago, from the text, " For I am de- 
termined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ, 
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10 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

and Him crucified." It was intended as the keynote of the 
ministry to which I had been called among you. No one 
can be more conscious of the weakness and faults of that 
ministry than myself ; and yet I know that its dominant 
desire has been to honor the crucified Christ by fidelity to 
the simple vital truths He taught, and loving, unfaltering 
loyalty to the church He founded. It has been the struggle 
of one human, like yourselves, to realize for himself and for 
you the practical value of the religion of Jesus ; its enlighten- 
ment, forgiveness, peace, hope, and power. It has been an 
endeavor to comfort and develop Christian life through the 
knowledge of the truth and the activities of Christian fellow- 
ship, sacrifice, and work. It has been an attempt through 
these means to win lost souls to the Crucified. We have 
struggled long and hard to realize, as far as possible under 
present conditions, the blessedness and usefulness of a true 
Christian church. That we have fallen far below the ideal 
we must all confess ; if in any degree we have succeeded, 
the record of the past must witness. 

At your request I face that past today. Very humbly, 
and yet very gratefully, I turn backward the leaves of our 
church history for two decades. 

One witness of true church life is found in the multiplying 
fruits of the spirit — " love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentle- 
ness, faith, meekness, temperance ; " against such " there is no 
law." These are not the fruitage of human nature. They 
are the opposites of " hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, 
strife, seditions, heresies." They are witnesses of the triumph 
of the new life over the old, the continued miracle of regen- 
eration, "for no man can do these things except God be with 
him." With such wide differences in parentage, education, 



THE ANNIVERSAR Y SERMON 1 1 

taste, and environment, it is not easy and natural for hun- 
dreds to dwell together in unity and peace year after year. 
If this fortunate result is reached, it witnesses to the presence 
and lead of the divine. 

For twenty years not a discordant note has marred the 
harmony of our church life. Loving and loved, we have 
dwelt and toiled together in peace. Selfish aims have been 
lost in the search for common good. Charity has hushed 
the harsher judgment, so that when voiced it was thought- 
ful and brotherly. You have thought kindly and generousl} 7 
of each other, of your church officers, and of those beyond 
your gates, and this spirit has commended you everywhere. 
Standing beneath the cross, with its blood upon you, you 
have found it easy to forgive, to love. In the sunlight of 
such a church life many a tempted, discouraged, doubting 
soul has awakened to new hopes and endeavors. " Behold, 
how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to 
dwell together in unity." Out of such a union of life a 
thousand possibilities of joy and service are born. There is 
a logic irresistible in its very spirit, message, movement. 
In this inner life of the church " the Lord hath done great 
things for us ; whereof we are glad." 

You have been blessed from the beginning of your church 
life with the membership of many who were not only true- 
hearted, but broad-minded. There has been an apprehen- 
sion of much divine truth on its practical side. The result 
has been large conceptions of the work entrusted to you at 
home and abroad. The rapidity of growth is evinced in 
the record of the church organization of 1862, the " Home " 
Sunday School in 1863, Kendall Chapel Sunday School in 
1866, Memorial Chapel Sunday School in 1869, Kendall 



12 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Branch Church in 1888, Chinese Sunday School in 1889. 
The present membership of these schools is 2,715, of whom 
1,942 are in the "Home" School. The Kendall Branch 
Church now has a membership of 264, with the promise of 
soon becoming independent and self-supporting. I wish 
here to gratefully recognize the faithful and efficient min- 
istry, for twelve years, of Rev. Theron Outwater, under 
whose labors Kendall Mission has grown into a branch 
church of increasing numbers. He has proven himself 
worthy of all confidence and love. Five years ago you 
erected a magnificent Sunday School House at an expense 
of $100,000 for the " Home " Sunday School, perfecting its 
organization, until it now has Kindergarten, Primary, Inter- 
mediate, Junior, Adult, and Home Departments, with an or- 
ganization, membership, and work making it one of the 
great Sunday Schools of the world. At an expense of 
$20,000 you have provided for the Kendall Branch Church a 
beautiful and well-equipped church edifice, while two of our 
devoted members erected, in memory of a dear son, the fine 
building now known as Memorial Chapel at an expense of 
about $10,000. You have borne an honorable part in the ad- 
vancement of Christian education, and thousands of dollars 
have gone from your hands for this great cause during the 
last two decades. In the care of our own Columbian Uni- 
versity your members have been long and honorably rep- 
resented. 

You have not forgotten that "the field is the world," and 
to it you have contributed of your life and means. Two of 
our best young men are filling important pastorates in this 
land ; another is in the Divinity School of Chicago Univer- 
sity ; two of our most devoted young ladies graduated from 



THE A NNIVERSA R Y SERMON 1 3 

the Home Mission Training School and entered their work, 
while three of our choicest young people have entered the 
foreign field, one in Burmah and two in India. Thus it 
will he seen that the current of your thought and effort has 
heen neither narrow nor weak. You have been world-wide 
in your sympathies, prayers, endeavors, and the breadth of 
your church life has been no mean factor in your growth 
and power. 

In addition to the beautiful spirit of your church life, 
the breadth of its thought and purpose, there has been added 
a spirit of individual sacrifice seldom surpassed. High 
above any individual wish, ambition, or plan has been the 
welfare of the church of Christ. I have never seen such 
surrender of self for the good of the organization. God 
alone keeps the totals of such love, time, labor, money, 
prayer, as you have put into Calvary Church. In this 
magnificent spirit of sacrifice you have revealed uncon- 
sciously to the world the sincerity of your own profession, 
the royalty of your own better lives, the beauty, gladness, 
and power of a consecrated church. The financial records 
of the church show that during the last twenty years your 
contributions have been as follows : 

For the Columbia Baptist Association. . . . $8,968.57 

Home missions 10,762.26 

Foreign missions 13,004.33 

Tract distribution 630.66 

Other benevolence 61,598.45 

Current expenses 177,214.68 

Improvement of property 179,471.40 

Receipts from all sources 494,112.09 

Total benevolence 137,428.01 

Annual average 6,871.00 



14 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAR Y 

These figures show an annual average benevolence of a 
little more than $6,871 and of total annual receipts from all 
sources $24,705. These financial records have a pathos 
and eloquence of their own ; they speak a language passing 
all words. 

Value of church property: 

1879 $100,000 

1899 300,000 

Total church receipts : 

1879 $4,731.23 

1899 51,289.47 

But sacrifice has been richly mingled with blessing. Life 
has grown larger, sweeter, and stronger as you unhanded 
your treasures for the honor and growth of your Lord's 
kingdom in the world, and in this very added power you 
have won many for that kingdom. The world listens the 
more willingly to the story from him who comes first from 
the place of honest sacrifice. 1 am humbled by the memory 
of God's goodness to us as a people. 

The records show that during the present pastorate 2,397 
persons have united with the church, as follows : 

Gain : By baptism 1,030 

By letter 1,216 

By experience 116 

By restoration 35 

Total 2,397 

An annual average of more than 117. 

Loss : By letter 567 

By exclusion 50 

By erasure 280 

By death 216 

Total 1,113 

An annual average loss of more than 55. Net gain, 1,284. 



THE ANNIVERSAR Y SERMON 15 

The total membership in 1879 was 404; in 1899, 1,650. 
The year of largest additions to membership was 1894, when 
the number was 231. The number for the past year was 173. 

What a record of faith, love, labor, joy, and hope is gathered 
into these simple figures! It is the story of lost souls sought 
and won, nourished, instructed, led, till the gates of a larger 
life opened, and we behold them enter. " The Lord hath 
done great things for us, whereof we are glad." 

Twice in your history God has raised up great and gen- 
erous souls whose royal gifts of money and self have been a 
continual source of inspiration and gratitude to us all, while 
close behind followed hundreds with their choicest gifts for 
the cause of our common Lord. The record of your giving 
has been a most eloquent witness to your faith and- love. 

No words at my command can express the gratitude of my 
heart for the unfaltering confidence, enthusiasm, and love 
with which you have honored me these many years. You 
have made my work a delight. Only 115 remain of the 
members who greeted me twenty years ago ; and now in this 
great assembly, with the keenest appreciation of loyal, loving 
magnificent service in the church of Christ, I salute the " Old 
Guard." God bless and reward you ! My eyes are dimmed 
as I think of the faithful who have entered into rest during 
this pastorate. Their faces seem to crowd the sanctuary today. 
We love and honor our precious dead. We have been per- 
mitted to know something of the blessings of fellowship, sac- 
rifice, and service, and each has been inexpressibly sweet. 
We have tried to do the Lord's work in what we believed 
to be his way, and He has blessed us. 

The early years of our relationship, dark with discourage- 
ment and loss, led up to the heroism and faith in 1893, when 



16 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAR Y 

you laid at the feet of your Lord a pledge of $157,000 for 
the enlargement of His work here and to the glorious years 
of later blessings with which you have been crowned. The 
story of the struggle is written in many a heart and home. 
Most kindly words have been spoken of your achievements 
by our citizens of all creeds, and none in the sisterhood of 
churches has a larger or warmer place in the hearts of Chris- 
tian people. For all this I am devoutly thankful. God 
keep us worthy of the place. May the future be worthy of 
our magnificent opportunities. 

You have loved and followed your pastor with an inspir- 
ing devotion ; you have become " my joy and crown ; " I love 
you, every one; but there stands here one "the latchet of 
whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose," 
and I would hide myself behind Him and in this glad and 
solemn hour have you see " Jesus only." High over all 
the blessed memories of the past and the glad congratula- 
tions of the occasion let there be written that one name and 
be seen that one face as we humbly say again, " The Lord 
hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad." 

















CALVARY 
BAPTIST * 
CHURCH 




1879 
1899 

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ORDER OF SERVICE. 



Sunday, December 3, 1899, 7.30 P.M 



DR. GREENE, Presiding. 



Organ Prelude. Mr. B. FRANK GEBEST. 

Anthem — O, Praise the Lord. Barnby. 

Responsive Reading — Psalms 121 and 122. 
Hymn — O, Worship the King, all Glorious Above. 
Prayer — Organ Response. 
Offering. 
Anthem — Fear Thou Not. 
Calvary Church, 1879-1899: 

An Account of its Stewardship 

Achievements of its Sunday School 



Woodman . 



Mr. S. W. Woodward. 
Mr. Mit.es M. Shand. 



Hymn— Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken, Zion, City of 
Our God. 

Its Spiritual Life . . Hon. W. S. Shaixknberger. 
A Retrospect Hon. L. K. Payson. 

Hymn — I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord. 

Benediction. 

Organ Postlude. 

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AN ACCOUNT OF ITS STEWARDSHIP. 
Mr. S. W. Woodward, 

Chairman Trustees Calvary Baptist Church Extension Association. 

We celebrate tonight the Twentieth Anniversary of the 
coming to ns of our pastor. Dr. S. H. Greene. We, his 
people, look back upon his twenty years of service with 
mingled joy and gratitude, because he has been a faithful 
shepherd to us and because his ministrations have enabled us 
to grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ. We know this because our own spiritual 
strength has been renewed : we have continued in faith : our 
organization has developed strong Christian characters, as 
is shown by the large number of Christian workers who 
have gathered here and are now engaged in the various 
branches of Christian work : also by the large number who 
have left us and have been called to leadership in other 
fields. 

I am to give an account of the stewardship of Calvary 
Baptist Church during twenty years. Perhaps the author 
of the text meant that we should touch upon the business side 
of Christian life in our church. There are those who believe 
that the business of the church should be conducted on the 
same lines and on the same principles as our secular business ; 
that we should meet our obligations with the same prompt- 
ness as business men. This we have tried to do in the work 
of Calvary Baptist Church. 

Our work has always been forward and progressive as 
befits a working church. My first Christian work, thirty 
years ago. was teaching a Sunday School class in a mission 
Sunday School. Uniting with this church twenty years 
ago, I found I was again a member of a mission church, 
we then having one Sunday School in Kendall Chapel and 

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22 T WENTIETH A NNIVERSA R Y 

another in Memorial Chapel. As years passed on, God's 
blessing followed the preaching of the Word here, and con- 
stantly a greater and greater number of persons filled this 
sanctuary. This was first shown in the increased attendance 
in our Sabbath School, which overflowed the vestries and 
filled the audience room. We then had an adult depart- 
ment of between three and four hundred. 

Then came still greater and greater numbers, and for a 
long time the trustees discussed, pro and con, the advisability 
of building the new Sunday School House. As I remember 
the discussion at the time, there was one strong and over- 
powering reason which compelled us to take this important 
step. 

Under twelve years of wise leadership a body of Christians 
had been gathered together who were thoroughly imbued 
with the doctrine of Christian fellowship and cooperative 
labor. As the pastor stated in his sermon this morning, in 
twenty years there has never been a semblance of discord, 
jealousy, or discontent, and we are proud to say that we 
belong to a body of Christians who literally, in profession 
and practice, follow the apostle's injunction " to each esteem 
others better than himself and so fulfill the law of God." 
With such a membership and such a leader we moved on 
and in time completed our present organization and Sunday 
School House. It may be too much to say that in our organ- 
ization we have no selfish men, but it is true that we have 
no self-seekers. We have no men who are anxious to be 
chairman of the Board of Trustees, for instance. We have 
no men who are anxious to be superintendents of the Sab- 
bath School or any of its branches; but men are found to 
take those place s who, while they think themselves not cap- 
able of filling them, still, having been selected, take upon 
themselves their duties because they know T they will be 
supported by the body of the membership in this church. 

In our Sunday School class recently w T e were much inter- 
ested in the lesson of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, 



REMARKS OF MR. 8. W. WOODWARD 23 

where each one built over against the walls of his house. In 
other words, to apply this to our own time and our own op- 
portunities, it means for each unit — that is, for each church or 
each individual member of a church — to do that thing which 
comes nearest to his hand. In doing that, as Dr. Whitman 
beautifully explained to us on a recent Sunday morning, we 
are literally rebuilding the walls of Zion, setting up the 
standard of the Cross, doing all we can individually to carry 
the Gospel to every creature. Nehemiah accomplished very 
much for his people and for the cause of his Master by sys- 
tematically arranging the work and then directing the people 
in their energies to its accomplishment. 

This is what we are trying to do in Calvary Baptist Church — 
to rebuild the walls of Zion over against our own house and 
so do our part in carrying forward the Master's work. 

Our mission work in Kendall Chapel, as the pastor stated 
this morning, is now housed in a splendid edifice, and with 
its 300 members will soon be self-supporting. We hope 
when that good day is here to do the same for Memorial 
Chapel, in another section of the city. When both have 
become self-supporting, I hope we may find another sec- 
tion of the city where a mission is needed and where our 
church will be glad to carry its ministry; otherwise what 
does it mean that we ourselves have a splendid church home 
and privileges, knowing that others are without these ? We 
possibly cannot give all the same privileges that we enjoy. 
Indeed, we are not required to do this, but we can each build 
the wall over against our own house. We can each become 
an integral part of a church or organization which is earnest 
and forward in promoting Christ's kingdom on earth, and 
thus do all that within us lies to strengthen and rebuild Zion 
and to save the city. We cannot do this without sacrifice, 
because there is nothing worth having in this world that is 
not obtained by struggle and sacrifice. 

If we as a people have made sacrifices, we are not alone. 
It is but just to say that our pastor has also made sacrifices. 



24 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAR Y 

We believe God sent him to us in our time of sore need to 
unite this people to do a great work in this city. He has 
remained here to do this work, but not because he was not 
wanted in other cities. It is known to a few of us that from 
1885 to 1890 there was not a year that he did not have one 
call, and some years two and three, and these calls were, in 
every instance, from the very best churches in the several 
cities, and churches paying very much larger salaries than 
we could afford to pay ; but all to no purpose. He believed 
in the work he was called to do in Calvary Baptist Church 
and he believed that God had given him the mission to carry 
it on. 

This is not all. In 1892, when we decided to build our 
Sunday School House, more than one pastor and personal 
friend advised him to retire while he had a good reputation, 
saying that a large building operation always brought about 
division and contention among the brethren ; that it would 
result in a failure, and they cited cases of proof. But because 
he believed he and we were in the right, and because he be- 
lieved that a united people stood behind him, he rejected 
their proffered advice and closes his twentieth year of min- 
istry with us stronger than ever in the affection of his people. 

We believe God has blessed our work for two reasons — 
first, because we had wise and devoted leadership, and, 
second, because he have alwa} 7 s had a membership composed 
of those whose hearts God had touched. We thank God 
for the opportunities we have had to work in the Master's 
vineyard with such a leader and with such a body of 
Christians, and we look forward into the coming century 
with courage and faith, believing that God has greater bless- 
ings in store for those who put their trust in Him. 



ACHIEVEMENTS OF ITS SUNDAY SCHOOL, 
Mr. Miles M. Shand, 

Superintendent of Sunday School. 

Achievements ! That is a strong word. Have we the 
right to use it in speaking of the Sunday School life of Cal- 
vary Baptist Church during the past twenty years ? Aye, 
most assuredly, for as we stand upon this anniversary height 
tonight we recall that the spot where we are was reached by 
noble endeavor, by heroic struggle, by paths not always pleas- 
ant and smooth to the feet, but often rough and hard. We 
remember, too, that sometimes the way was that of pioneers 
and that it had to be blazed by us as we went along. 

We have realized in this Sunday School service of the days 
that are gone that ;> nothing great is lightly won," and we 
are saying over to ourselves tonight those words of the morn- 
ing text, " The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof 
we are glad." 

In no department of our great church life are there higher 
ideals or more varied and important work than is done in 
our Sunday Schools. 

First in importance, the Book of Books is here studied. 
Other services of the church there are on Sunday and during 
the week where the Word is explained, where experiences of 
the Christian life are exchanged and prayer ascends, but the 
Sunday School is the only place where members of the church 
meet to study together the Word of God. 

The gatherings and doings of the Sunday Schools of the 
world, this growth of the past century, demonstrates clearly 
the faith of myriads of student lovers of the Bible in the truth 
of the saying of old, "The entrance of Thy Word giveth 
light." How much of the light and joy diffused throughout 
Christendom during the past hundred years may be traced 

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26 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

to the work of the Sunday School, eternity alone will reveal. 
In this splendid work for humanity Calvaiy Church has 
borne no mean share, and especially in the past twenty years 
has the onward and upward growth and interest in Bible 
work been developed here. 

Twenty years ago our school numbered less than 500 mem- 
bers ; today it has an enrollment of 1,942, including a Home 
Department of 400 members. 

In 1879 most of the scholars in our school were children and 
young people under twenty-one years of age, while today we 
have in our Adult Department alone 739 scholars, or nearly 
300 more than the entire membership of the school in 1879. 

Calvary Church has always cared for the children in a 
loving and generous fashion that must please Him who said, 
" Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, 
for of such is the kingdom of heaven." 

It will be a sorry day if ever we shall do less in our school 
for these little ones whom Jesus loves, for there, as every- 
where in this world of ours, child life is the most beautiful 
and hopeful and inspiring. One of the advance steps, how- 
ever, in the Sunday School life of recent years is leading the 
Christian world away from the idea that the Sunday School 
is solely for the children, and there is a growing conviction 
that the Sunday School should be composed not only of the 
children, but also of the older folk who gather to study God's 
thought and plan and purpose as revealed in His Book. 

In Calvary Sunday School we have what was at the time 
of its organization, nearly eleven years ago, a unique feature, 
an Adult Department, separate and distinct from all other 
departments of our school. 

This department was started in February, 1889, with 17 
classes and 300 members, and now numbers 40 classes with 
nearly 800 members. This growth in numbers, in interest 
in Bible study, and in other directions well known to you 
has been a source of surprise and great cheer to us all. 

In the conception of the Adult Department, in its wise 



REMARKS OF MR. MILES M. SHAND 27 

organization, and in its efficient service we are indebted to 
our pastor more than to any other man. We may truly say 
this is one of the great achievements of his pastorate. 

Five years after the organization of the Adult Department 
our Sunday School House was dedicated, this event marking, 
in some respects, the greatest epoch in the history of Calvary 
Church. 

Upon coming into possession of this house, " the finest 
Sunday School building in the world," the reorganization of 
the school was perfected, it being divided into five depart- 
ments, Kindergarten, Primary, Intermediate, Junior, and 
Adult, while still later a Home Department, which is destined 
to be another great influence for good, was put into opera- 
tion. 

So we have an organization worthy of its place of meet- 
ing and of its high object, one which others tell us has per- 
haps no superior among the Sunday Schools of the world. 

Here, as in all really great Sunday School work, does the 
interest center upon the human side in the lives and teach- 
ings of those called to lead. I may be permitted to say here 
a word of appreciation of the splendid services of our six 
associate superintendents who are in charge of the various 
departments and upon whom the responsibility for each 
rests. I may also voice our sentiments concerning all our 
assistants in this good work, especially those who are called 
to teach. Nowhere, I am very sure, does there meet on the 
Lord's Day a more devoted band of loyal, intelligent, and 
earnest Christian workers than are our teachers, and it would 
be hard to find a spot where there is more joy and gladness, 
good cheer, and brightness than is apparent in all the sessions 
of Calvary's Sunday School. 

It is not alone in our church school that our Bible work 
has been done, but in three other centers — at Kendall 
Chapel, at Memorial Chapel, and in the Chinese School. 
The first two were in existence when our pastor came and 
the Chinese School was organized ten years ago, 



28 T WENTIETH ANNIVERSAR Y 

Kendall and Memorial Chapels really deserve separate 
and distinct mention, as we remember the toils and tears 
and prayers offered on these fields and the frait gathered. 

In the Chinese School, the fact that in recent times half a 
dozen of these brothers of ours, whom we think far away in 
spirit from Christianity, have accepted Jesus Christ as their 
Saviour and Master has given the workers in this hard 
place great joy. 

Perhaps some day they may be telling the story of re- 
deeming love to their countrymen, and so our influence be 
extended to the far East. Who knows? 

I am not here tonight to utter fulsome words of praise of 
our pastor, or to embarrass him in his modesty. I wish for 
his sake that his name might be left unspoken ; yet it would 
seem ungracious not to speak the thought which is in all 
our hearts concerning him. We know that, under the bless- 
ing of God, no man has had so much to do with the success 
of our Sunday School interests as has our loved pastor. 

His best thought and plan, his tactful and loving person- 
ality, his farsightedness, enthusiasm, and constant fidelity, 
have been given to our Sunday School work, almost as 
though that had been his only duty. 

His name appears first on our list of officers, and his impress 
has been upon all our Sunday School work. As the repre- 
sentative of the Sunday School on this happy occasion, I am 
very glad to utter these sincere words, for pastors are not 
always pastors of their Sunday Schools, and we have been 
most wonderfully blest in this respect. 

In behalf of these for whom I speak, let me assure you, 
pastor, of our keen appreciation of your magnificent service 
for the kingdom as represented in our Sunday Schools, and 
our loving affection for you as a man of God, a good minister 
of Jesus Christ, our dearly beloved under-shepherd. 

And so on the heights tonight we pause for a few moments 
to look back over the way we have come. Is this the end? 
Oh, no ! Beyond and beyond are still other heights to be 



REMARKS OF MR. MILES M. SHANI) 29 

climbed, other plans to be perfected, other and better work 
to be done ! 

This morning there gathered in our school 1,052 of its 
members, eager to study God's word, to sing His praise, and 
to pray to Him who hath given us richly all things to enjoy. 
Is this not inspiring, as we think of it ? 

Is it any wonder that we are glad tonight — glad in this 
city and country of ours, glad in our Church home, glad in 
our Sunday School life, glad we have a man like our pastor 
to hold up Jesus Christ, to show men and women and boys 
and girls what a good thing it is to live clean, fine, strong 
Christian lives ; to help to hasten the coining of that day 
when our great city shall be taken for Him whom we love 
and whom we crown our Lord and Master, even Jesus Christ ? 



ITS SPIRITUAL LIFE. 

Hon. W. S. Shallenberger, 

Second Assistant Postmaster- General. 

Dear Christian Friends: Our pastor has feelingly al- 
luded to the days twenty years ago when it was ray privi- 
lege to worship with this people. He has referred to them as 
dark days in the history of the church, and I can sympa- 
thize with him in the use of that expression. They are doubt- 
less remembered by many who are here as dark days. As 
I remember, the church granted letters to 120 or more within 
the year preceding the advent of our pastor, including several 
of the officers, all of whom desired to connect themselves 
with a neighboring church. Those who remained natural]}'' 
felt that, with the host divided, the membership reduced, 
and the income diminished, the prospect ahead was some- 
what dark. It is often in darkness, however, that we come 
to know and appreciate the source of light. It is under the 
cloud that we think of the sunshine above it. 

During those days it was my privilege to worship with 
you and to find in you a people who looked by faith above 
the clouds and trusted in the Lord Jehovah for strength. It 
was then I recognized the sweet spirit in which you granted 
all letters of dismissal — cheerfully, lovingly, and with a " God 
bless } T ou." It seemed evident to me that such a people 
would receive the blessing of the Lord. When those who 
felt compelled to withdraw and work in another field had 
taken letters and the band of devoted, harmonious workers 
had counseled together, invoking the guidance of the Holy 
Spirit, then it was that the Lord sent you an under-shepherd 
who announced as his first text, " I am resolved to know 
nothing among you save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." 

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32 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

It soon came to be understood among you that the new 
pastor did not seek to know and was grieved to hear any 
part of the story of the troubles that preceded his coming. 
It was in those early days that the spiritual life of the church 
was conspicuously emphasized by our pastor, and the glory 
of these twenty years of church history, it seems to me, lies 
in the fact that above and beyond all material prosperity that 
has come to the church and congregation the pastor has kept 
the spiritual force- of the church well to the front. 

I remember the charm of the week-day social meetings. 
Quite frequently I felt it possible to drop into the Tuesday- 
night meeting, and there note the trend of thought and ex- 
pression, the child-like faith and trust in God. and the tender 
pervading personal interest in the salvation of every one 
present. Every evening, without exception, I was delighted 
to hear the pastor, who had usually taken no previous pan 
in the exercises, arise and. in his tender, sympathetic, affec- 
tionate way. and with words that seemed almost inspired, 
give a closing appeal to his hearers to flee from sin and 
live a pure, holy, and upright life. I invariably left the 
meeting with a fresh fund of grace and strength for the du- 
ties of the morrow. It was not my privilege to regularly 
attend the Tuesday-night meetings, but I resolved that I 
would attend the regular Thursday-night meetings of the 
church, and to set aside every other engagement, if possible. 
in order to do so. Rarely, indeed, did the stress of public 
duty prevent my attendance. They were to me. of all the 
evenings of the busy weeks I spent in Washington, the most 
refreshing and uplifting. At the close of every one of them 
the gentle, persuasive, tactful leadership of the pastor pre- 
pared all hearts to respond in sympathy to his touching in- 
vitation extended to the unsaved and to those who needed 
spiritual consolation. There were times when it seemed dif- 
ficult to prevent friction in these largely attended meetings, 
as the discussion was so free and the care- and worries of life 
weighed so heavily upon the hearts and were so likely to 



REMARKS OF HOX. W. 8. SHALLENBERGER 33 

bias the judgment and lead to hasty and inconsiderate ex- 
pressions. The spirit of Christ, however, reflected in the 
pastor's words would invariably bring the meeting to a happy 
close. The conduct of these Thursday-night meetings had 
much to do in giving a healthy, spiritual life to the church. 
Not only was the invitation always extended, but there was 
with it such an evident expectancy of results as to indicate a 
prayerful preparation and close communion with the Holy 
Spirit, 

Xo stronger testimony can be given in favor of the wisdom 
of the church's methods than the record of baptisms and ad- 
ditions to its membership, flowing as they do in a steady 
stream during the several months of every year, without the 
aid of special meetings. An average of more than 50 bap- 
tisms each year for 20 years, or one for every week, speaks 
volumes. Rare, indeed, is the month that closes without a 
baptism. 

It is not surprising that the present membership of this 
church is intensely loyal to its pastor and affectionate one 
with another, without a note of discord or any semblance of 
an unseemly strife for preferment. The sheep have imbibed 
the spirit of the under-shepherd, whose every word and act 
in every walk of life reflects the wisdom, tact, and love of the 
divine Saviour. These words may safely be spoken of the 
pastor, for, although his constant endeavor is to hide himself 
behind the message he brings us, he will pardon, I know, 
the freedom we take on this occasion. It is because he lives 
the life of Christ that his people love him and join with him 
in giving all honor to their common Lord. In the manifold 
organization of the church and Sunday School, and with 
every officer and every committee, the masterful leadership 
and the skillful generalship of the pastor is felt and wel- 
comed ; and not only in Calvary circles, but by representa- 
tive men of every denomination in the city and in all charit- 
able organizations, the deeply spiritual tone of our pastor's 
work has been recognized and respected. 



34 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

The receptions held every Sunday at the close of the morn- 
ing service in the room below the auditorium, where the 
pastor meets and greets strangers, and where several hundred 
of the membership love to tarry for a few moments in social 
and Christian greeting, have contributed largely to develop 
the spiritual life of the church and make it known through- 
out the country. I have never seen the like attempted any- 
where else, nor is there any other feature of our church life 
more generally commended. 

Seated in my office, I look across the street and see a 
beautiful building of steel and marble going up. I am sur- 
prised to see the army of workmen, each busy all the day 
with his particular work, no one interfering with the other 
and apparently taking orders from no one. Stone after stone 
is lifted and set in its proper place in the wall, which is 
delicately chiseled to fit and fill its own and no other place. 
Some are needed in high places, some in low ; many of them 
hidden from view, yet indispensable to the complete structure. 
Somebody is responsible for this harmonious marshaling of 
men and materials. There is a foreman for every set of 
workers, a superintendent back of the foreman, an architect 
and designer back of the superintendent, and yet above all 
a great need and a great mind planning to supply that need. 
The success of the plant depends on the fruit that it bears 
and ripens. 

Again, I see a great railway company reaching out after " 
small connecting lines, building new tracks, renewing and 
strengthening the old, straightening curves, building im- 
mense locomotives and cars, and finally securing a continu- 
ous track, well ballasted, at great expense, with a full com- 
plement of rolling stock to handle an immense traffic. A 
regiment of trained men are ready for service. Back of all 
there must be a great purpose and a great mind endeavoring 
to supply a great need. Much depends on who is chosen to 
direct these great corporations, and yet more as to how wisely 
the great plants may have been designed to meet the needs 



REMARKS OF HON. W. S. SHALLENBERGER 35 

of the public, as to whether success or failure attends them. 
You have heard tonight of this great church plant from one 
whose contributions have done so much to secure it. You 
have heard of the personnel of our Sunday School, the men 
and women who are trained to use the facilities afforded by 
this beautiful edifice and Sunday School House. 

A great newspaper plant will justify its creation and meet 
the expectation of its founders in proportion as it feeds its 
patrons on the freshest and best news of the day and on the 
knowledge of the truth concerning the needs of the busy 
throng that surges about it. 

A great railroad system will achieve a high place among 
successful transportation companies in proportion as it carries 
its increasing traffic at less cost and with greater safety and 
speed than its competitors. 

The primary object of these great corporations is first self, 
and secondly the good of others, their patrons. It is well 
that the law of the universe compels the men who would 
achieve permanent success among their fellows to minister 
to others in the same substantial manner if they expect to 
be ministered unto. The adage is true, " Who would have 
friends must himself be friendly." But the Church of the 
Lord Jesus is expected to respond to the spiritual law of the 
universe, which was announced by its Founder, who came 
into the world not to be ministered unto, but to minister. 
A church's mission is first the good of others. The good of 
self is indispensable because it gives us Christ's likeness, and 
thus fits us to be Christ's witnesses among men in the gracious 
privilege of ministry to others. 

This beautiful church home and these well-equipped Sun- 
day School rooms are the joy and pride of our people ; but 
the crowning glory of our church is and ever should be that 
we fulfill the high mission assigned us by the great Head of 
the Church when He called it into being. In all our services 
we feed on His word and grow strong for service. So long 
as pastor and superintendent, officers, teachers, and members 



36 



TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



emphasize the spiritual life of the individual Christian and 
reach out after others, the light of the church cannot be hid. 
nor its prosperity clouded. We can do our pastor no greater 
service and bring to his heart no greater joy on this glad 
anniversary occasion than by reflecting now and henceforth 
in our daily lives the spirit and mind of Christ, illustrating 
by word and deed the tenderness, sympathy, and helpfulness 
of the Saviour's life among men. 




A RETROSPECT. 
Hon. L. E. Payson, 

Ex-Member of Congress from Illinois. 

I confess to a feeling of embarrassment in a slight degree 
in rising to address this audience, owing to the novelty of 
my position. I am not entirely unaccustomed to facing 
public assemblies, but such occasions have usually been of a 
political or legal character, and so of a worldly nature ; and 
being called upon now to take part in exercises of this 
character, where the subject is purely that of Christian 
work, and remembering, too, that I am only one of the 
congregation rather than a member of the church organiza- 
tion, the situation is a novel one to me. 

My own judgment is that this time should be occupied by 
some member of the church organization rather than by me. 
The explanation of my being at this desk rather than in my 
seat in a pew is that I feel a deep interest in everything 
that concerns this society ; and if, as was said, a few words 
from me would add to the interest of the occasion, I ought 
to speak them, if I felt that were so in the slightest degree. 

It may not be after all so inappropriate an idea, because, 
aside from my personal interest in this society (I hope you 
will follow me clearly here), my good wife is a member of 
the church. That makes me, of course, a sort of brother-in- 
law, and so by marriage we are all somewhat related. 

Moreover, my review of your past involves my saying 
some things of you that I am sure you would not feel like 
saying yourselves, so it may be that, being on the outside, it 
is better that I should say what I purpose to. 

The general field with reference to this church has been 
very fairly gleaned today in the sermon by the pastor, and 
in the addresses which have preceded me ; so I regard it 

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38 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

as fortunate that I was admonished that ten minutes would 
be the expected limit of the addresses, and therefore you 
will neither be lengthily bored nor long detained. 

My assigned duty tonight is to make some suggestions in 
a retrospective way upon the Twentieth Anniversary of 
Dr. Greene's pastorate from a standpoint outside of church 
membership ; to give you briefly, of course, the impressions 
which have been made upon my mind as a practical, busy, 
business man of this church, on this particular occasion and 
at this particular time. 

The occasion is the celebration of an important event — 
the coming to this church twenty years ago of a pastor 
whom we all respect and love. 

In a business sense, the great results affecting the material 
interests of mankind are brought about very largely by 
organization, and all the great business interests of the 
country, whatever their character, find it pleasant as well as 
profitable to have their yearly organization meetings, at 
which the past can be closely reviewed, social ties strength- 
ened, and the future improved in the light of recent ex- 
periences. The lawyers of the land, the members of the 
profession to which I belong, the men who have in mind the 
management and regulation of the really great concerns of 
civilized nations all over the world, find it not only, as I 
have said, pleasant, but profitable, to gather yearly at their 
anniversary meetings to canvass the existing situation, to 
review the defects which experience has demonstrated, and 
strengthen social ties (for that is important in all these 
gatherings), and then, in the light of the experience of the 
past, to remedy such defects as have presented themselves. 
The merchants and traders of this land, the giant intellects 
who control the great interchange from manufacturer to 
consumer, from producer to user — these men all over the land 
have their anniversary meetings for purposes which will 
suggest themselves without further detail ; and so on in all 
the great business markets, among bankers, among educators, 



REMARKS OF HON. L. E. PAYSON 39 

among railroad operators and traffic managers, as well as in 
humbler life, the trades unions and the labor unions every- 
where have their anniversaries, and all over the world ex- 
perience has demonstrated the desirability of this kind of 
gathering. All the business world has come to feel by ex- 
perience the benefit of such gatherings. 

So the church, which is in a sense but a beautiful business 
organization, established for the highest possible aims, be- 
cause of the business proposition that " in union there is 
strength " adopts the practice of having its anniversaries to 
review its past, and start in on its future in the light of the 
lamp of its past experience. 

To rightly review the past, which is my purpose, we must 
canvass the present situation Will you kindly remember 
for a moment that I am addressing you from a position out- 
side of the church organization, but having, I trust, as deep 
an interest in all that concerns Calvary — its welfare as an 
organization and its people individually — as any among 
you, for, believe me, my attachment to you has grown with 
the years, so that I can almost adopt the words of Ruth in 
asserting her devotion to Naomi. 

Now, this time is especially appropriate for this gathering. 
Let us remember that we are all citizens of a great nation, 
and in the midst of a thanksgiving period in which we all 
realize that this country of ours is profoundly blest, AVe 
have general health, no pestilence stalks abroad in the land ; 
there is liberal employment for all labor ; there is a higher 
standard of personal comfort and living among our people 
than this nation or any nation in the world has ever known, 
and educational advantages and church influences are widely 
extended. 

More restrictedly and coming more directly to what we 
have in mind, we find this church in a wonderfully pros- 
perous and therefore satisfactory condition. I use the word 
advisedly, that this church is wonderfully prosperous. Its 
membership has, in the period we are considering, speaking 



40 T WENTIETH A NNIVERSA R Y 

in round numbers, increased from about four hundred to 
sixteen hundred. Its congregation — those who constitute 
its membership — will aggregate nearly two thousand. Its 
Sunday School rolls bear the names of nearly two thousand, 
large and small. The parent school is among the largest 
in the whole Christian world and the third largest in the 
Union. These figures are not only eloquent, but they are 
more than gratifying to any who are interested in this 
society. 

Some things I may properly say of you that you might 
not say with propriety of yourselves. The character of the 
membership of this church is of the very best. It is made 
up of men and women of the highest type of manhood and 
Avoinaiihood, excelling in personal character and Christian 
virtue, examples worthy to be followed, as they are, by very, 
very many who make no special profession of Christian faith. 
The personal relations of the members of this church chal- 
lenge the admiration of outsiders more than very many of 
you are aware. 

I was delighted this morning to hear in the sermon the 
thought I have had in mind to give you, that during all 
these years in the personal church relationship not a dis- 
cordant note has been heard. In the social relations there 
has always been a well-recognized equality. This equality 
has been deserved by all and has been a source of joy to 
nearly every participant in it. The humblest member of 
the congregation has been blest and elevated by it, while 
the more prominent have made no sacrifice whatever by 
entering into it. I feel quite sure you do not know how 
great the commendation is which is expressed by people 
outside of Calvary as to this particular phase of your society 
life. It is also true that no church within my knowledge 
has equaled the standard of this people in this particular 
regard, nor has there been during all these years any tend- 
ency in this congregation toward exclusiveness, or getting 
together in " sets," because either of wealth or supposed 



REMARKS OF HON. L. E. PAYSON 41 

superiority in anyway. The maxim, "Let brotherly love 
continue," has been the rule which seems to have been 
adopted and obeyed. This, to me, presents one of the best 
conditions of the church life of this society. 

Again, in its liberality in giving for benevolent purposes 
and for its own comfort, this church has a remarkable record. 
Without having in its membership any men of specially 
great wealth, its collections have been simply marvelous. 
The figures in detail were given this morning by the pastor. 
More than five hundred thousand dollars has been laid upon 
this altar during this period for purposes connected with the 
work of this society. No better evidence can be given of 
the loyalty of this people to the principle, " the Lord loveth 
a cheerful giver." Surely His face shines upon many hearts 
and many homes in this congregation. 

You have this building, the most beautiful in its interior 
in this city, none excelling it in comfort or better adapted 
for church purposes. It is a fitting home, if I may say so in 
this presence, for such a people, and splendidly appropriate 
for him who presides in it. 

Nothing on this earth is too good for either. 

For the Sunday School House, adjectives of which I have 
control are not good enough. Its existence and its plan, as 
well as the splendid work done in it, and made possible be- 
cause of it, are known and praised in every part of this Union, 
for I know in my own experience I have heard of it in the 
most distant parts of the country — in Denver, in Portland, 
and in San Francisco. 

It has been hinted to me that in these exercises it would 
be more appropriate not to mention names. I am one of 
that class of men who believe in giving honor to whomsoever 
honor is due, always commending great achievements when 
made in a good cause. 

I feel, when looking over what has been done for this 
church, and which you and I know of, having witnessed its 
performance, that no praise can be too great nor any bless- 
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42 TWENTIETH ANNI VERSA R Y 

ing too bountiful for the men who made it possible for this 
church edifice to be thus improved, and for us to have this 
beautiful accessory, the Sunday School House. Therefore, 
while I will regard the admonition, and while I will obey 
the rules and call no names, I do invoke at this time the 
greatest praise and the choicest blessings upon, first, one of 
the best men among us, and, second, upon a gentleman at 
whose store my wife occasionally strains my credit. 

Now, going back for twenty years in that retrospection, 
as time is measured among men, this is two-thirds of a 
generation — a long, long time. In it has been crowded so 
much of happiness and sorrow, so much of pleasure and of 
pain, so many sweet personal associations were formed to be 
severed by removal or by death, so much bright living in 
the sunshine of successful life, so closely followed by the 
walk through the dark valley of the shadow of death=how 
much, oh, how T much, is crowded into twenty years ! Yet it 
seems to me but a little while, although more than nineteen 
years ago, that I was first attracted to this building by some 
pleasant comments upon a new pastor who had come here. 

The society was not large then — only about four hundred, 
as I was told — but it had many of the good people of today 
and all of the type of its present membership. The build- 
ing was comfortable and ample in size for the needs of the 
society and Sabbath School. 

Now, may I say to you that whatever a church society 
may be, as between it' and itself, as to the great outside world, 
that great body of people not yet bound to it by formal ties, 
the characteristics of the pastor are all-controlling in enlist- 
ing attention and attracting attendance. 

I found in the new pastor at the very first many excellent 
qualities. While sturdily rebuking sin in every form, there 
was a kindlines of manner, a gentleness in persuasion, a 
depth of thought, an intuitive reach for the feelings of his 
hearers, a felicity of expression in his sermons which made 
them then, as they have continued since, incentives to right 



REMARKS OF HON. L. E. PA YSON 43 

living and to higher ideals of individual excellence seldom 
found or heard elswhere. 

I found I was listening to a preacher who, while a devoted 
Baptist, never elevated denominationalism above life and 
duty. I deem it within my present province — because of 
the effect upon the church during these twenty years — to 
refer to the qualities of mind and heart which I saw in the 
pastor, of his earnestness in every field of labor to which he 
might be called. Outside of the pulpit his earnestness and 
his laborious pastoral work in the Sabbath School attracted 
my attention. In the benevolent work connected with this 
church he stood first, and in educational endeavors we all 
know the burden he took upon himself cheerfully in con- 
nection with the Columbian University ; and so in all the 
various fields which are incidental to pastoral work, the 
pastor of this church not only never sought to avoid them, 
but sought them out in order that he might occupy them. 
Conspicuous was his gentleness of manner, attracting the 
diffident and making association a pleasure to all. 

I observed very early his fund of sympathy in time of 
trial, a fund upon which every draft, large or small, has 
been honored in the bright coin of heartfelt, tender commis- 
eration. I was then impressed by the peculiar charms of his 
sermons, always leading up to higher ideals of life and duty. 

No retrospect of these twenty years can be had without con- 
sidering his personality as a very large factor. It attracted 
me, as it had attracted hundreds of others, to these doors and 
to these seats. With him as its leader, the loyal, devoted, 
generous, and lovable people in this society have made a 
combination which has from the situation of twenty years 
ago grown into the splendid organization and equipment for 
good which you and I now see and enjoy here. 

This anniversary brings up all these and hundreds of other 
thoughts to me. I see, in looking backward over these years, 
this society, with Dr. Greene and his noble wife at its head, 
coming up by patient work in religious and social endeavor 



44 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

to its present proud position, doing untold good now, and 
whose influence for future good cannot be measured nor 
confidently predicted. 

This is my retrospect — faulty, weak, incomplete, but mine — 
and your knowledge of the situation can supply any omis- 
sion which I have made. I only voice the desire of all when 
I express my hope that his remaining years may be many 
and filled with the brightest and best that earth can give. 

My most earnest wish is that the past of this church may 
be its model for the future, and that the pleasant ties now 
binding the pastor to this people and this people to each 
other may be severed only by death. 











PUBLIC SERVICE 

....and 

RECEPTION 

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Commemorative of the Twentieth 
Anniversary of the Pastorate Vf*?f 

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FRIDAY EVENING 
DECEMBER 8, J899 











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Friday Evening, December 8, J 899, at 8 o'clock. 

Rev. B. L. WHITMAN, D. D., Presiding 

Organ Prelude - : - - - Mr. B. FRANK GEBEST 

Baritone Solo - - - - Mr. J. D. McFALL 

Prayer .... Rev. S. M. NEWMAN, D. D. 

Hymn — How beauteous are their feet 
Who stand on Zion's hill. 

Opening Address Dr. WHITMAN 

Congratulatory Addresses — 

Rev. ALEXANDER MACKAY-SMITH, D. D. 
Rev. LUTHER B. WILSON, D. D. 
Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. 
Rev. TEUNIS S. HAMLIN, D. D. 
Rev. CHARLES A. STAKELY, D. D. 

Tenor Solo — Selection - - Mr. W. D. McFARLAND 

Reading of Congratulatory Letters and Telegrams. 

Hymn — Blest be the tie that binds 

Our hearts in Christian love. 

Presentation of Purse Mr. D. A. CHAMBERS, 

of the Board of Trustees 

Benediction Rev. C. C. MEADOR, D. D. 



Reception in the Sunday School House. 

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PRAYER. 

Rev. S. M. Newman, D. D., 

Pastor of the First Congregational Church, City of Washington. 

Almighty and blessed Lord, our hearts are constantly 
amazed as we think of the vitality of Thy church in the 
world. We find in its struggles, in its successes, in its his- 
tory through all the centuries, divine life, divine inspiration, 
divine thought and purpose. Whenever we come together 
upon such an occasion as this Thy majesty is revealed unto 
us in the existence of the church, the body of Thy saints in 
the world prolonged through the history of sin unto the 
present time. We rejoice, Lord, in its greatness, in its 
wonder, in its power over the souls of men. We rejoice, 
Lord, because this work which embodies Thine energy, 
Thy grace, takes up into itself the life of a single man and 
makes it great; because this church, which has come down 
through the centuries, is a stream of opportunity into which 
any one casting himself finds service for Thee. 

We thank Thee that this is possible, that Thy church ex- 
isting in the world makes life great and brings it to its 
highest and best culmination ; but we rejoice, Lord, over 
against this greatness of Thy church that there are lives 
which can be taken up and made great through Thy life in 
the body of Thy people. We bless Thee for men in whose 
consecration, in whose faith, in whose zeal, there are the pos- 
sibilities which Thou delightest to honor. Having planted 
such qualities in the breast, Thou dost put them into the 
service of the body of Thy people in the world, making 
them a perpetual power. 

We come together tonight, Lord, in all humility, by 
Thy grace, to speak together about a life which has thus 

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50 TWENTIE TH ANNIVERSAR Y 

been honored and which honors Thee ; and we bring that 
life, the life of our brother, in all its faith and success, to 
Thee, because we know the life of man emanates from Thee 
in all its success and faith ; and so we bring pastor and 
people and lay them before Thee, asking that, as the years 
that are gone have been years of trust, years of unity, years 
of growth and power, so the years that are to come may more 
than repeat the story of the past. 

We leave this dear church, this dear brother, in Thy gra- 
cious care and keeping; and with all the congratulations 
which fill our hearts and minds tonight, we offer Thee 
thanksgiving that the life of our brother has been such as 
to be taken up into the stream of divine life and energy and 
made a glory unto Thee. We leave everything with Thee, 
and crave Thy favor and blessing through Jesus Christ, Our 
Lord. Amen. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 

Rev. B. L. Whitman, D. D., 

President of The Columbian University. 

It was the man who has seen more clearly, perhaps, than 
any other man in America the heart of things who said : 
" The builders of memorial statues measure themselves." 
The tokens of war, of conquest, of literature, of science, of 
art, all tell their own story, and tell, too, what manner of 
man wrought the tokens. 

It is a matter for earnest congratulation that in addition 
to the tribute we pay to all leaders in these lines we are able 
to bow down when the occasion comes to men who by simple 
goodness lay their fellows under obligation. The city of 
Washington is a better city because of the wonderful tribute 
it has paid this week to the ministry as a calling, to the min- 
istry as an opportunity for godliness and civic faithfulness. 

We have been glad to have part in the services of the 
Luther Memorial Church, memorializing the wonderful pas- 
torate that now spans half a century. Tonight we have met 
to give thanks to God, to exchange congratulations, and to 
express our appreciation of the beautiful life that for twenty 
years has been laying us under obligation to the pastor of 
this church. By his eloquence of speech, by largeness of 
service, by his Christliness of character he has been making 
himself our leader. We are glad to bow down to him tonight, 
because he deserves this tribute at our hands. 

The great invention of modern politics is the principle of 
representation. Here is a church which has a pastor whose 
parish is limited only by the boundaries of the world. The 
multitudes outside of the church membership, but within 
the limits of the city, and that other great multitude out- 

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side the city who love and honor Dr. Greene would be glad 
to have their voices heard tonight. This may not be, and 
yet we all shall speak, for out of this goodly compan}' certain 
brethren have come to voice our sentiments. As they speak 
to each we will say in our hearts, in our thoughts, in our 
minds, " Speak thou for us. These are our words. Pay thou 
tribute for us all." So, while words we shall be glad to hear 
shall come to us, words that we shall willingly treasure among 
the sweet and precious things of the heart, we may well feel 
that the gentlemen who speak the words are simply in a 
larger and better way ourselves speaking. 

It is my honor and privilege to introduce these gentlemen ; 
and first I shall call upon Rev. Dr. MacKay-Smith. 



CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 
Rev. Alexander MacKay-Smith, D. D., 

Rector of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, City of Washington. 

Ladies and Gentlemen : I always feel at home on any 
platform where Dr. Whitman is, because he always reminds 
me of a character which I would gladly welcome anywhere, 
but which I had hitherto supposed it impossible to find 
namely, in any natural history, viz., a Baptist bishop. If 
you do not like bishops or if you do not care to see men 
performing, through their high character and abilities, the 
duties of a bishop, I advise you to keep my friend Dr. Whit- 
man off the platform. 

Some years ago the Shah of Persia was visiting England 
and was entertained very magnificently by the Duke of 
Devonshire at " Chatsworth." The day he left he took the 
Prince of Wales aside and whispered in his ear, "That duke 
of yours is entirely too powerful. I advise you to have him 
strangled." 

Now, I do not advise you to strangle Dr. Whitman, but 
simply to give him confinement for a short time, and I 
would suggest the best place of imprisonment would be 
your hearts. 

Speaking more seriously, it is a great privilege to me to 
be here tonight on such an occasion as this, where brethren 
of other Christian bodies claim the right — not merely the 
privilege, but the right — to come and speak their word of 
congratulation . 

Only a few nights ago we were celebrating here in Wash- 
ington the fiftieth anniversary of the pastorate of one who 
might be called a " father in God," the' Rev. Dr. Butler. 
Tonight we keep the spiritual birthday of one we might 

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term a " brother in God ; " yet God knows, too, that twenty 
years is no small or exiguous pastorate ; it is about half the 
time that the average man gets for work in this world, 
whether for good or ill ; and any man who has put in twenty 
years of solid work has pretty well indicated the value of 
his labor and what the verdict upon it will be. 

This is in many respects a magnificent parish. As Dr- 
Whitman has told us, its fame has gone forth. I have no 
doubt you good people all have your little weaknesses and 
individualities. I do not know what they are, but I know 
something of the virtue of this work. I know how it 
strengthens other pastors, not merely here in Washington, 
but all over this broad land, to know that a great work is 
being done in this neighborhood for the cause of Christ, and 
that Dr. Greene has for twenty years been at the head of it. 
It is an enormous work. You have a tremendous Sunday 
School, a Sunday School which always fills me with envy, 
but with envy of such a kind that I would be very glad to 
see that Sunday School go on growing and increasing year 
by year. You have an immense relief work, and you take 
hold of the souls of strangers who come to Washington and 
aid them in a way in which other parishes perhaps cannot 
always do. But I sometimes wonder how Dr. Greene stands 
it all. He must have an iron constitution to last for twenty 
years in the midst of a work which, I am thoroughly con- 
vinced, would entirely exhaust me in eighteen months; but 
he remains today what one of the bishops in the Episcopal 
Church described himself to be. This bishop had been 
visiting a wealthy member of his diocese, a lady, in order to 
perform some of his episcopal functions, and on entering his 
bed-room at night he found his dressing-table covered with 
a large assortment of silver nicknacks. He carelessly swept 
them into a drawer and placed his own brush and comb on 
the table. The next day he left, and a few days afterward re- 
ceived a letter from the lady which said : " My Dear Bishop : 
You passed the night at my house a short time ago, and 



CONGRA TULA TOR Y ADDRESSES 55 

when you came you undoubtedly noticed there was a good 
deal of silver in your room. Now, Bishop, it's all right. 
Of course, it is entirely correct, but I cannot find that silver. 
No one could have taken the silver, of course ; but still, 
Bishop, knowing it is all right, I would like to know what 
has become of that silver." The bishop penned this brief 
telegram in reply : " Poor, but honest, Look in the bureau 
drawer." For twenty years Dr. Greene has remained poor, 
but honest, and I venture to say that in so doing he has set 
a magnificent example to men who are too fond of money- 
making.' Dr. Greene has abilities ; he has even great talents, 
as we believe. He could easily have made his mark in any 
profession, but he has preferred to remain a simple preacher 
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to let other men do the 
money-making, honorable as it may be to make money 
when a man is conducting his business in an upright way. 

You all remember that story of Agassiz ; how, while busy 
with his profession, he was approached by some men who 
wanted him to develop a great copper mine, and to whom 
he made that startling assertion, " I have no time to waste 
in money-making." That word went like a thrill through 
the length and breadth of America. I well recollect how it 
inspired me as a boy with the thought that there were some 
things in the world that were worth more than money a 
thousand times over. 

Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven, and of such we be- 
lieve, and thank God for it, is the life of our dear brother 
whom we come here to greet on this cheerful anniversary. 
Some years ago I was in the city of New York on a very 
sad errand. A dear relative had died and I had gone on 
to the funeral. The next morning, in the rush and roar of 
Broadway, I met, face to face, the late Mr. Cornelius Van- 
derbilt, who stopped me and said, " What are you doing 
in New York ? " I said, " I have come on to the funeral of 
a member of my family." And there, in the midst of the 
crowd, which for the moment for him as well as for me had 



56 T WENTIETH A NNIVERSA R Y 

utterly vanished, he grasped my hand, while the quick tears 
filled his eyes as he said, " Oh, how little life would be worth 
living were it not for our faith in Christ!" I thought to 
myself afterwards, Would God those words might be written 
in letters of gold and placed above the entrance of every 
college, every ware-room, every chamber of commerce, every 
lawyer's office, every church in these United States, to remind 
men that here was a man with everything which he could 
possibly wish, the world could possibly give, who yet felt 
that he had nothing if his faith in Jesus Christ was taken 
from him. 

It is because I believe Dr. Greene to be a faithful preacher 
of such a gospel that I am here. It is because you believe 
him to be such that you are here tonight. You have come 
out in your thousands, but you must not forget that there 
are others here as well as you. The dead who have died in 
Christ in the last twenty years in this parish are looking 
down upon us tonight. Dear Dr. Greene himself is here in 
several persons. There is Dr. Greene here as his Maker sees 
him, as you see him, as the public sees him, and as he sees 
himself. I have no doubt that all these verdicts agree ex- 
cept, perhaps, in one case, in that where Dr. Greene, as he 
sits and muses over this wonderful past, this wonderful greet- 
ing, considers himself and looks upon his own record. I 
have no doubt as he sits here he thinks of himself simply as 
what he is — a poor sinner saved by the mercy of Jesus Christ 
and the light of His Gospel. This is the Gospel, my dear 
friends, which he has preached, the Gospel for which all our 
evangelical churches stand ; and I pray God that his life be 
spared to proclaim this Gospel here in his church and to 
invite mankind to accept the cross of Christ. 



CONGRA TULA TOR Y ADDRESSES 57 

Rev. Luther B. Wilson, D. D., 

Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington District. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : I count it a 
very great honor to be permitted to stand here tonight and 
offer from my heart congratulations to the pastor of this 
church. Reading the old story of the Master's life, we are 
told that when He went into a certain place and entered 
into a house He could not be hid ; and there is some- 
thing about the life of Jesus Christ, projected through the 
centuries, which makes it impossible to hide a church where 
He lives or to hide a human life in which Christ is en- 
shrined. You do not need to be assured that not only you 
who are of the communion that especialty claims Dr. Greene 
have been observant of Calvary Church and of the work of 
its pastor, but all the city has been taking account of your 
progress and studying also that quiet life which, moving on 
obediently to the Master, has been making the history of 
these twenty years. 

It seemed to me, thinking of your church and of your 
pastor beloved, that you had mastered two great arts here ; 
you have mastered the art of getting hold of men, of get- 
ting hold of them strongly, of their hearts, of their minds, 
of their hands ; you have gotten hold of their lives; but you 
have mastered another one, and that is the art of holding 
on to those whom you have thus grasped. 

It has been a privilege which I have enjoyed a few times 
of coming into your Sunday School, or into some gathering 
here where the younger members of the church especially 
were prominent, and I have seen the power of the pastor's 
life over those lives. It has been my privilege to stand here 
once or twice and come in contact with the elders of the 
church, and I have seen how this man of God holds your 
love, your confidence, and your respect. It would have been 
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58 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAR Y 

impossible to write the history of these twenty years if there 
had not been this force of personal character in the pulpit 
and moving in and out of your homes. Some one has said 
there is no human will but feels the " fleshly screen ; " and I 
take it that if we were to ask our dear friend Dr. Greene tonight 
if all of his dreams in these years had come true, if all of his 
ideals had worked out, he would be ready to answer, just as 
all the great hearts in the Church of God must answer, that 
all his dreams have not worked out ; and yet, as Dr. MacK ay- 
Smith spoke about that choice between the ministry of Jesus 
Christ and some other professions in which the emoluments 
seem to be greater, some of the fields of effort in which the 
honors seem to be more glowing than in ours, I could but 
rejoice in the forcefulness of this strong life that has for 
twenty years been the center of your effort. I could but 
think of what that life has achieved. You have found men 
in the dust, and you have lifted them up toward God. There 
have been found lives in sin's deformity, and they have been 
lifted up to some height where the transfiguration glory has 
been shining out ; and it seemed to me that, looking back 
through the twenty years and realizing that by the help of 
the good God there has been given not only the opportunity 
for labor, but success in labor, the thought of that decision 
which brought our brother into this high field of service and 
the recollection of what it has meant to others must crown 
this hour with a joy that not all the congratulations that 
you and I could bring could possibly }deld. Paul has said, 
speaking to the church a long time ago, "All things are 
yours." I think if he had been writing this week, and had 
been living in Washington, he would have mentioned not only 
Cephas and A polios, but would have put in also the name 
of our honored brother, Dr. Butler, and he would have put 
in the name of } 7 our pastor, Dr. Greene. Surely, for one, I 
feel that in part these lives are ours as well as yours; and 
for the helpfulness of them, for the success of them, for the 
good cheer of them, for the power that has been and is in 



CONGRA TULA TOR Y ADDRESSES 59 

them to provoke others to love and good deeds — for these 
things I thank God, and because of them I bring my glad 
congratulations and lay them at your pastor's feet. 



Rev. J. G. Butler, D. D., 

Pastor of Luther Place Memorial Church, City of Washington. 

Mr. Chairman and Friends : This, Dr. Greene, is the 
penalty of the joy of a long pastorate. Our friend, Presi- 
dent Whitman, not only has the proportions of a bishop, as 
Dr. MacKay-Smith has said, but my good wife, when she 
left the room two or three nights ago, said, " What a supreme 
presiding officer Bishop Whitman is," and our wives are our 
best critics and best judges. 

I do not wonder that Dr. Greene, having an audience like 
this, is an eloquent preacher. He does not have to do as a 
friend of mine did, who tells this story of himself. He said 
he was preaching to his little handful of people one Sunday 
morning, and at the close of his sermon one of his hearers 
came to him and said, speaking of a choice passage in the 
sermon, " Pastor, that was a very eloquent passage." The 
honest minister said, " That was from Chalmers." " I wish 
it had all been from Chalmers," remarked the candid parish- 
ioner. I do not imagine that Dr. Greene has occasion to 
draw from Chalmers or any one else. 

There lived in my home several years ago one of the best 
servants I ever had in my house, and this incident came to 
my mind as I thought of what I should say here tonight. 
She retired when she felt she was too old for service, and she 
is now living across the Aqueduct bridge. I regard her as 
one of my parishioners, and as often as I can I visit and talk 
and pray with her. I remember she had several sons in the 
army, and she was anxious to ask General Grant, then Presi- 
dent, if he could not tell her something about her boys. 
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60 T WEXTIETH ANNWERSA R 1 r 

This good woman was a Baptist, too. and she gloried in it. 
and so did I. She said. " I was baptized in midwinter. 
They had to cut a hole in the ice, and I never so much as 
sneezed." She came to hear me preach when she could 
leave her good Baptist brethren. It was not hard to arouse 
the religions sensibilities of Aunt Fannie. She was one of 
the servants who would come to family worship. After 
coming to our church she would say. " It was foreordained 
from all eternity, Dr. Butler, the Lord meant you should 
preach."' Now, I think Dr. Greene has been here twenty 
years because it has been foreordained from all eternity that 
the Lord meant he should preach. Unless there is such 
conviction, I feel it would be better for us preachers to go to 
money-making, and I believe some of us could make money. 
One of the compliments over the left to me not long since 
was, " Well, if you were not a preacher I think you would 
be a millionaire." I am sure I would rather be a preacher 
than a millionaire, but if I were I would use my money in 
the service of God, and I wish all millionaires did so. 

Today I was walking along Pennsylvania avenue with a 
friend from Atlanta, a man who handles millions of dollars 
every year, a man who is an elder in a Presbyterian Church, 
and he said to me, " It is strange that men do not see how 
true the Bible is in everything, and how walking in fear and 
love of God brings blessing and joy to the heart." We are 
having more than ever of this class of men who do business 
for God. and I am glad that this church represents that ele- 
ment in the Kingdom of Heaven ; that there are men here 
who do great things, as well as men and women who do 
things not so great, and yet in Heaven's arithmetic they may 
be greater, for the " widow's mite is more than the rich man's 
abundance." 

I rejoice that Dr. Greene is here in the midst of this great 
congregation, so great a power in our city. Why his pastor- 
ate has continued so long grows out of the fact that he is 
really the pastor, the shepherd of the flock. He keej:>s in 



COXGRA TULA TOR Y ADDRESSES 61 

touch with the sheep of the flock, and with the lambs of the 
flock. How he does it I do not know. I am sure I could 
not do it. Yesterday I received a telegram from a friend in 
Boston, congratulating me personally and officially,, and he 
said. " Xow. give us fifty years more.' - ' Well, I laughed. I 
wish I might. Nothing really gives such luxury to life as 
living in this world, so full of sin and woe. and being able to 
do some little good in it unselfishly serving our fellow-men ; 
that is both the pith and the power of the truest life. If Ave 
can just so far forget ourselves and our preferences and tastes 
and ambitions as to serve all men, regardless of class or race 
or conditions, it appears to me we have attained the highest 
interpretation of life and the fullest joy of life. 

Xow. Dr. Greene is more than a preacher : he is a shepherd. 
A shepherd is one who gives his life for his sheep. That 
is the spirit of the great Shepherd. He gaA'e His life for the 
sheep : and, referring to the thought of my eloquent brother, 
Dr. MacKay-Sinith, judging as God judges, and that, after 
all. is the correct judgment, our dear brother has in God's 
sight the heart of a true pastor. He loves his people. It is 
very true, no doubt, there are those who feel they are neg- 
lected. Every pastor has such parishioners. I presume there 
are some in our churches who if you were to run in to see 
them every week would still feel they were being neglected 
and imagine they must be looked after constantly. The very 
best remedy for this kind of disease is for everybody to try 
to do something. Look after somebody else and you will 
forget yourself. This is the secret of happiness in this life — 
to forget yourself, to give your life to some one else. This 
church is unlike other churches if there are not in it some 
people avIio need looking after. I am sure it is so in my 
smaller parish. 

There are Avanderhig sheep who do not love the fold : theA~ 
have hardly any religious life, seldom filling their places in 
the house of God. It is questionable whether their con- 
sciences haA^e been quickened, whether their hearts haA~e been 



62 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

renewed ; or whether they are not spiritually dead, and yet 
the responsibility of looking after them rests upon the pastor. 

I went into a family not long ago and said, " My good 
woman, I wish you would take your letter from my church." 
She lifted up her hands in holy horror at the thought, for 
she loves her pastor. I replied, " I cannot clo you any good. 
You habitually neglect your church duties." Xo doubt, 
Dr. Greene and every true pastor has like experiences. 

I had in my church two young people, and after a while 
they applied for a letter to join the Methodist Church, and I 
was glad to give it, I met the pastor of that church some 
time later, and he said, " I want to thank you, my dear 
brother, for sending us two such excellent men." They could 
work in the new field, but not with us. I tell you, where 
you can work most helpfully there you ought to be ; where 
you can worship most profitably, there you ought to be. If 
it is in my church, all right ; if it is somewhere else, all right. 
Neither your church nor mine is the only one. We are 
striving altogether to build up the Kingdom of God, and not 
to build up fences that separate us, the one from the other. 
The Kingdom of God is greater than all our churches. 

I rejoice that in these latter years we seem to be growing 
somewhat into the spirit of the Master's prayer ; that the 
Baptists and Episcopalians and Lutherans, and believers of 
every name, all may be one, as our Father in Heaven wishes 
us to be. As we stand facing the twentieth century, my hope 
is that there will be a newer and a richer and a fuller life, and 
God grant Dr. Greene and my dear brethren who are on this 
platform tonight, and you, my Christian friends, in these pews, 
may live to see the world better and more fully one in Christ 
Jesus. What would we be without our churches ! without 
our pastors ! I trust we may live to greet that new century, 
and that God may give to every church the baptism of the 
spirit, of faith, of zeal, and that the church of the twentieth 
, century may gather even greater harvests than the church 
of the nineteenth century ; and may you and I be here to 
enjoy it. 



CONGRA TULA TOR Y ADDRESSES 63 

Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., 

Pastor of the Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian) , City of Washington. 

This really seems to be rather a good week for ministers — 
in Washington anyway. It is only forty-eight hours ago 
that we joined in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. 
Butler. Perhaps he is not quite so old as that. I thought 
he was not when I heard him speaking just now. We are on 
a similar errand here. 

I have been thinking as I looked at this audience that we 
ministers in Washington would have to be careful or we 
should be coming to think too much of ourselves. There is 
some safeguard, however, in the churches. 

I do not know that Dr. Greene is in exactly the same posi- 
tion as a dear brother who went to a new parish, where one 
of his parishioners said to him, " I hope you will get along 
well in your work among us. If the Lord will keep you 
humble, we will keep you poor." Between the Lord and the 
church, most of us, I hope, manage to keep reasonably humble. 

Dr. Butler's friend who wanted him to have another half 
century reminded me of a certain good friend who used to 
live not a thousand miles from where we are, and reminded 
me by contrast. This good man, not a clergyman, but an 
officer in a certain church in the city, was giving a little 
party on his eightieth birthday, and one of his friends, coming 
in to congratulate him, said: "Well, you have covered two 
of the periods of Moses' life. I hope you may live to cover 
the third, also.'' " Well," was the answer, " if you will pro- 
vide me a Pharoah to fight, T think lean." The brother 
alluded to added to other good qualities a very decided strain 
of pugnacity that has never been marked in either Dr. Butler 
or Dr. Greene ; and really, in view of the harmony and good 
will which exists in this city, I do not know but that we could 
dispense with both Dr. Butler and Dr. Greene rather than 
have their lives prolonged on that basis. 



64 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

It is a very great privilege, far beyond anything that I have 
language to express, to stand here for a moment and extend, 
not only simple congratulations to Dr. Greene, but the most 
earnest good wishes of which my heart is capable. Dr. 
Greene, as you all know as well as I can tell you, is preemi- 
nently a man to be loved. If I were to try to describe him 
in a single phrase, I do not know any phrase that would come 
so spontaneously to my lips, and that I would feel was more 
adequate than that — a man to be loved. It took me but a 
very little while, upon coming to Washington thirteen years 
ago, to learn to love Dr. Greene ; I hope he reciprocates it 
to some extent; and I may truthfully say that every inter- 
vening year, every intervening week, has added to the ear- 
nest affection which I cherish for him. It is a great thing to 
be respected, and Dr. Greene commands the respect of every- 
one who knows him. It is a great thing to be admired, and 
his talents, his poise, his rare good judgment are in every 
way admirable ; but it is a vastly greater thing to be loved, 
and if a man could choose only a single thing that could 
come to him from his fellow-men, I am sure most of us would 
choose to be loved ; to feel that there is a multitude of men 
and women, and, above all, of little children, with their in- 
tuitive and infallible judgment of character, who cling to us, 
bound by ties of love; and, beyond almost any man that I 
have ever known in the Christian ministry, this is character- 
istic of your pastor and our brother and friend. How par- 
ticularly delightful it is to have this verdict from the "jury 
of the vicinage," as the lawyers say ; from the men and 
women who analyze us and know best what we are ; from 
those who have the greatest opportunity to estimate our 
motives, the secret springs of our character, and who, with 
that opportunity, conscientiously believe that we are sincere 
and earnest and honest men. I am sure if you could take a 
poll of this city; and then come nearer, to his own denomi- 
nation ; and then come nearer, to his own church — and it is 
hard to come very much nearer than that to a man who has 



CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES 65 

been pastor in one place for twenty years — there would not 
be a single dissenting voice to the estimate which is thus 
given of the character of this man, neighbor, friend, minister, 
and pastor, at whose feet we lay tonight the tribute of un- 
divided and unfailing affection. May God bless him and 
enrich him greatly unto every good word and work, that he 
may accomplish God's purpose for him, and that, having 
served his generation by the will of God, he may at last 
sweetly fall on sleep and be gathered to his fathers. 



Rev. Chas. A. Stakely, D. D., 

Pastor of the First Baptist Church, City of Washington. 

Mr. Chairman: This is one time when the rest of us 
ministers have the advantage of Dr. Greene. The occasion 
is his, but the opportunity is ours ; the opportunity to say 
to him, and in the hearing of his people, what we think about 
him. I have been greatly interested in these tributes of 
respect and honor and praise to which we have all listened. 
These brethren have represented other denominations. I 
would not have them to feel for one moment that they think 
more of Dr. Greene than we do who belong to his own denom- 
ination. Every member of his great denomination is proud 
of him, proud of what he is in himself, and proud of the 
marvelous work which he has in God's providence and grace 
been permitted to accomplish at the National Capital. I 
represent tonight the oldest of the churches of our denomi- 
nation in the District, and, in a way, all the other churches 
of this denomination except the one of which he is pastor, 
and I can speak for them all in indorsing all the kind words 
that have been spoken of Dr. Greene by these representatives 
of other communions. 

There are somethings which I desire to say, and I have no 
hesitation whatever in sa} T ing them, as I feel that every per- 
son present and all persons in this city will indorse them at 



66 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAR Y 

once. Dr. Greene is a splendid illustration of three things 
which I want to mention. He is a splendid illustration of 
the power of the preaching of the simple Gospel of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, without any sensational attachments whatever. 
In the whole course of these twenty years of his service here 
at the National Capital there cannot be found in any of his 
discourses, in any of his topics of discussion from the pulpit, 
in any of his announcements in public print, the slightest 
trace of the sensational. He has demonstrated that the 
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, preached in its simplicity, 
is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe. There 
has never been at any time the slightest resort to any other 
source for power oi 7 er the people, for strength before the 
people, for success with the people. He has thrown himself 
for these twenty years upon the power of the old Gospel ; 
and while his methods of work in the church of which he 
has been pastor have been the methods of the nineteenth 
century, the spirit of his preaching has been the spirit of the 
first century ; and while his methods have been practical 
and have been up to the day, the spirit of his preaching, 
being that of the first century, is in advance of the clay ; and 
so he has been the leader of a great people, and the leader 
of a marvelous movement, and has been an honored agent 
in the hands of Almighty God in the salvation of a multi- 
tude of precious souls. 

He is a splendid- illustration of this also : while Dr. Greene 
has been loyal to the principles of his own denomination, he 
has been sufficiently broad and fraternal to recognize the good 
in all denominations. Putting emphasis upon the truth as 
he understands it and as represented by his own belief, he 
has put just as much emphasis upon the great principles 
which all evangelical denominations hold in common, and 
he has shown in his ministry and in his work that these 
principles are just as precious to us as are any of those that 
characterize us peculiarly as a people, and for them we would 
just as readily lay down our lives. 



COXGEA TULA TOE Y ADDRESSES 67 

Christian people are closer together today than they have 
ever been since early post-apostolic times. More of us see 
the truth alike, and, what is just as sweet, we see more of the 
truth alike. There is no principle peculiar to us as a de- 
nomination that we hold in greater reverence or with greater 
confidence and tenacity than we do these great principles 
that characterize us all and bind our hearts and lives and 
work together, and make us all members of one great family 
and interested in one common cause. His mind has been 
broad, and his heart has been liberal and sympathetic and 
true, and his fraternity toward all has been unquestioned in 
the course of these twenty years of a marvelous pastoral work. 

Dr. Greene is, furthermore, a splendid illustration of the 
union of the preacher and the pastor in the Lord's work. We 
know what he is in the pulpit. Those of us who are closer 
to him than those brethren who represent other denomina- 
tions have felt his power in the pulpit. We know what a 
close student of the Word he is. We know what a sturdy in- 
terpreter of the truth he is, and we know how his great mind 
has fairly lived in the truth of the Old and New Testament 
Scriptures. We know his great power as a preacher. Now, 
add to this his wonderful pastoral capacity. A man of un- 
usual administrative ability, showing itself in all the depart- 
ments of this great work and well known throughout this city 
and throughout this country, going in and out before the 
people as a teacher of the truth and as an under-shepherd, 
and reaping the success that does not fall to the lot of but 
few of the ministers of the Word, and tonight he can look 
out over the city and over the country and himself see much 
of the fruit of these twenty years of service. 

I congratulate you on having. such a pastor. I congratu- 
late my own denomination on having such a leader. I con- 
gratulate him on the great work which he has been enabled 
to accomplish. We honor him for what he is in himself. We 
honor him for his work's sake. May he have in his own 
heart in large measure the sweetness of the Gospel which he 



70 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

in their name to invite you to make a journey, when and 
where you will, and loiter where you will, for change and 
rest and enjoyment, and general benefit of mind and body. 
This may not take you to " Greenland's icy mountains " 
and " India's coral strand," but then you may not wish to 
visit those latitudes. It will take you to some sunny clime 
in winter, or to mountain and shore in summer — at home or 
abroad — where the bloom of health may return to the cheeks 
of your wife, and where you may wax fat and strong. All 
we ask is that you will save enough money to get home, for 
the trouble of separation will be relieved by the expectancy 
of welcome home. 



RESPONSE OF THE PASTOR. 

Mr. Chairman and Dear Friends : This is an evening 
full of sweet delight, surprise, and embarrassment. So min- 
gled are these emotions that I cannot command myself to 
say the words I would. That I am grateful for all the 
kindly sentiments expressed here tonight, God knows. For 
these gracious words that have come from my honored 
brethren of other communions I am profoundly grateful. I 
am very glad if in any sense my life has touched the lives 
of others out of and beyond my own immediate field. It 
has been a very great delight to me to feel that in a high 
sense every pastor in this city was my own brother, and for 
all God's people I can say I have cherished not only sincere 
regard, but the warmest affection. I desire to give expres- 
sion to my very keen appreciation of the sweet fraternal 
spirit which I have found from the very first among my 
brethren in other pulpits. 

For my own people, the men and women who have sat in 
these pews and who have made my poor ministry have in it 
anything of success, I can command no words to express my 
tender regard. That I love them I trust has sometimes found 



CONGRATULA TORY ADDRESSES 71 

a hint in the labors of the past. I remember in entering the 
ministry I was cautioned by some older that I must hold myself 
in hand and regard my own interests somewhat, for churches 
were not very largely to be trusted ; and I have been think- 
ing, as I looked into your faces tonight and as I remembered 
all the sweet years when you have made ministry a privilege 
and blessing to me, of that advice. I flung myself at the 
beginning of my pastorate completely upon you. I believed 
in you. I believed in the possibilities of the Christian 
church. I believed in the honesty, loyalty, and enthusiasm 
of those who had been won by the Gospel, and I am very 
glad to say, after these twenty years of experience, that faith 
is not shaken, but increased. I believe in Jesus Christ, the 
Saviour of men ; I believe in the church for which He gave 
Himself, and I have found its work the sweetest delight of 
all my life. 

I wish to disclaim much that has been said here tonight 
concerning myself. If anything has been accomplished in 
the widening of the kingdom from this center of work, it is 
very largely due to the great-hearted and broad-minded men 
and women who have honored me with their attendance on 
this sanctuary. 

This generous check is a very unexpected remembrance 
on this occasion. This hint of change and rest is only an- 
other token of that affectionate thoughtfulness which has 
marked all these years. I thank you. My heart is deeply 
touched. Let the love and labor of coming years witness 
whether the gratitude be genuine and lasting to you and to 
these brethren beloved who have brought such kindly greet- 
ings from our sister churches. 



BENEDICTION. 



Rev. C. C. Meador, D. D., 

Pastor of Fifth Baptist Church, City of Washington. 




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CONGRATULATORY LETTERS 



AND. 



TELEGRAMS 




CONGRATULATORY LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 



Hon. J. H. Walker, ex-Member of Congress from Massachusetts. 

My Dear Dr. Greene : Mrs. Walker and myself wish you 
and Mrs. Greene a most Happy New Year. 

When the invitation to participate with your people in cele- 
brating, on December 8, 1S99, the Twentieth Anniversary of 
3 T our pastorate reached me I was exceedingly busy and laid it 
aside with exceptional care to properly answer. 

In no neglect to acknowledge a kind remembrance have I 
done myself and friend so great a wrong as in not promptly 
answering the kind invitation of your people to Mrs. Walker 
and myself to be of the number to express to you and yours our 
appreciation of your eminently successful and loving service to 
the Calvary Baptist Church for twenty years. 

Be assured that no person whom we met in Washington is in 
our minds more pleasantly or frequently than yourself ; no place 
has for us so delightful memories as the meetings of the Calvary 
Baptist Church, and there are no persons whom it would give 
us an}' more pleasure to meet than your people. 

Nothing we experienced in Washington gave us more un- 
alloyed pleasure and was so profitable as the services in your 
church. We anticipate more pleasure in meeting you and your 
people and sharing the great things you have accomplished 
under God when we visit Washington than any other thing. 

Please accept from Mrs. Walker and myself our belated but 
most sincere and hearty congratulations upon your happiness in 
your great achievements. 

Please take some means to restore us to any good opinion of 
us we may hope heretofore to have enjc^ed. in the minds of your 
people. Mrs. Walker joins me in kind regards to Mrs. Greene. 

With sentiments of the highest respect and esteem, I am, 
Very truly yours, 

J. H. Waeker. 

Worcester, Mass., 

December 26, 1899. 

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Mr. P. H. Bristow, Assistant Director General, Department of 

Posts, Cuba. 

{Formerly Superintendent of Calvary Baptist Sunday School. ) 

Dear Dr. Greene : The invitation to the reception to be 
tendered to you on the 8th instant, in honor of your Twentieth 
Anniversary as Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, came too 
late to allow me time to get my congratulations in your hands 
before the event. You, however, do not need any word from 
me to assure you how very sincerely our congratulations are 
united with those of your church, school, and congregation of 
more than three thousand souls. And those are not all, for 
thousands more in Washington, who know so much of the 
church you have been instrumental in building up, will want to 
share in expressions of respect and appreciation. Yet there are 
more, to be counted by the thousands and tens of thousands, in 
the great field of our country, into every part of which have 
gone the seeds of your sowing, who will want to add their testi- 
mony that you have builded well, and who will wish for you 
years of continued prosperity to your labors. I will not be 
going too far in saying that from lands in all parts of the world 
will no doubt come voices bringing good cheer. 

P. H. Bristow. 
Havana, December 5, 18 pp. 



Telegram from Mrs. feannie K. Stickney, Monrovia, Cal. 

Congratulations and love to pastor and people this Twentieth 
Anniversary. 

J. K. Stickney. 
December 8, 1899. 



LETTERS AXD TELEGRAMS 77 

Mr. Henry H. Kendall, Newton Center, Mass. 
{Formerly Superintendent of Calvary Baptist Sunday School.) 

The invitation of the church to assist in honoring "the 
pastor" is heartily responded to. Would I could do so in 
person, but my engagements here will not permit. I well re- 
member the day he came to us, determined to know nothing 
among us " save Jesus Christ and Him crucified," and for ten 
years I saw and knew how he held the banner of the cross above 
all else in our midst. ' ' Honor him ? " I could not honor man 
more. ' ' Love him ? ' ' My heart has been his since first I knew 
him. 

Let me gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to him for 
revealing heavenly things and showing how this earth is but a 
stepping-stone to houses not made with hands. May he long 
be spared to you and may the church loyally uphold his hands 
and yield him confidence and trust. When that fails him, we 
shall all lose him, for his heart will not brook a divided affection. 

Cordially yours, 

Henry H. Kendall. 
December 7, 1899. 



Rev. T. F. Chambers, Pastor First Baptist Church, Saratoga 
Sp? r ings y N. Y. 

My Dear Dr. Greene : Accept heartiest congratulations 
for Mrs. Greene and yourself from us both for the twenty won- 
derfully blessed and successful years at Calvary Church and all 
wishes for as many more years of happiness and prosperity in 
the same dear place. 

Affectionately } r ours, 

Tileston F. Chambers. 
December 6, 1899. 



TWENTIETH ANNI I 'ERSAR Y 



Rev. F. IV. Hatch, Pastor First Baptist Church, Sanger ties, N. Y. 

My Dear Friend : The twenty years of your pastorate in 
Washington have been rich in blessing. You cannot know all 
the good that has been accomplished. I desire to say person- 
ally that many of those twenty years were precious ones to me. 
I feel that I owe much to my first pastor. I am also persuaded 
that my present position in life is due largely to your kindly 
interest and helpfulness. 

F. W. Hatch. 

December 8, 1899. 



Mr. Charles IV. JVeedham, Dean, School of Comparative Juris- 
prudence and Diplomacy , Columbian University. 

Dear Doctor : It is with sincere regret that I write to say that 
it is impossible for me to be present at the reception at Calvary 
Baptist Church this evening, being obliged to go out of the city 
tonight. I desire to extend to you my hearty congratulations 
upon your long and eminent service as a pastor in this city. 
The growth of your church, the affection of your people, and 
the high esteem in which you are held in this community are 
the best testimony to your abilities and your faithfulness to your 
high calling. 

Permit me to express the hope that you ma3 T long continue 
your good work and enjoy the honorable distinction you have 
won. 

Sincerely yours, 

Chas. W. Needham. 

Washington, D. C, 

December 8, 1899, 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 79 

Otis T. Mason, LL. D., Curator National Museum, City of 
Washington. 

Dear Dr. Greene : I congratulate you on your Twentieth 
Anniversary. How happy you must be in the contemplation 
of these years of service for the King of Kings ! My blessing 
on you and my best wishes for twenty more. 

I am, ever sincerely yours, 

O. T. Mason. 
December 4, 1899. 



Rev. John F. Hurst, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, City of Washington. 

Dear Dr. Greene : With sincere congratulations upon your 
long and useful career among us, and with best wishes for your 
continued prosperity, I am, 

Yours fraternally, 

John F. Hurst. 
December 6, 1899. 



Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D. D., Pastor Central Presbyterian Church, 
City of Washington. 

My Dear Brother : I am a little late with my best wishes 
and congratulations on the occasion of your Twentieth Anni- 
versary, but they are not the less warm and cordial. 

God has given you a great work to do in our city, and has 
wonderfully blessed you in the doing of it. You have my affec- 
tion and esteem. 

Sorry that I could not get to your reception. 

Faithfully yours, 

A, W, Pitzer, 
December 13, 1899. 



80 LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 

Rev. Byron Sunderla?id \ D. D., Late Pastor of First Presbyterian 
Church, City of Washington. 

Dear Dr. Greene : I have just received a kind invitation to 
attend the celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of your 
pastorate of Calvary Baptist Church. How well I remember 
the scene of twenty years ago ! How we received you then, 
a comparative stranger, and what a history you and your church 
have had since. No greater work for the Kingdom of our com- 
mon IyOrd has been done in Washington in the last score of 
years. 

I do congratulate you and your people on all the way in 
which God has led you, and I sincerely rejoice with ) 7 ou on 
this auspicious occasion. May the coming twenty years be 
even more prosperous than the past. I deeply mourn that my 
condition will prevent me from being present on the joyful 
occasion. Give my warmest love to your dear people. 

Fraternally, 

Byron Sunderland. 
Catskiel, N. Y., 

December i> 1S99. 



Rev.f. E. Rankin, D. D., L. L. D., President Howard Uni- 
versity, City of Washington. 

Dear Dk. Greene : I congratulate you on the length and 
the strength of your pastorate. I know few men who have so 
thoroughly offered themselves to God and man as you have 
done in the last twenty years. Your success has been of the 
solid kind. May it long continue. 

Very truly, 

J. E. Rankin. 
December 2, 1899. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 81 

Rev. G. W. Ltcccock, D. D., Pastor Metropolitan Presbyterian 
Church, City of Washington. 

My Dear Dr. Greene : Please accept this expression of 

pastoral greeting, along with which go a warm appreciation of 

the great work you have done in this city, and the wish that 

your vigorous prime may be sustained for many years to come. 

Yours cordially, 

G. W. IyUCCOCK. 

December 23, 1S99. 



Rev. Dr. J. M. Stiffler, Professor Croser Theological Seminary, 
Chester, Penna. 

To the Committee of Reception, Calvary Baptist Church, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs : I regret that I cannot attend the reception ten- 
dered to my friend, your pastor, Rev. Samuel H. Greene, on 
this Twentieth Anniversary of his pastorate. 

It is only precious things, gold and granite, that endure the 
wear and friction of time. The man who can stay twenty years 
in such a pulpit as Calvary, with its great interests, shows the 
genuine stuff of which he is made, and that he is a man of God. 
But I need not say this to you. You know his genuine worth. 
You know him as one completely devoted to his work — a man 
who does not live for himself, but for the highest good of men. 
You know his pure, his sympathetic, and his large heart. 
These are among the reasons why he has stayed with you 
twenty years, and why you wish him to stay another twenty — 
the Lord grant that he may — to preach to you in his own earnest 
and effective way the gospel of Christ. 

It makes one think well of Christianity and of the ministry 
to know such a man as Rev. Samuel H. Greene. I send him 
my greeting, and have long felt honored that I am numbered 
among his host of friends. 
Sincerely yours, 

J. M. Stiefeer. 
December 7, 1899. 



82 LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 

Rev. George P. Wilson, D. D., Pastor Assembly Presbyterian 
Church, City of Washington. 

Dear Sir : I want most heartily to congratulate you, and 
your people as well, on the Twentieth Anniversary of your 
pastorate. It is a great lesson in church work to contemplate 
an organization down town which not only endures but grows 
to colossal proportions. 

The example of your abundant success is an inspiration to 
all earnest endeavor in our city. May you add at least another 
score of years' service in Calvary, amid the love and veneration 
of your flock and the whole community. 

I am sorry that I shall not be able to attend the reception 
tonight. 

Fraternally yours, 

Geo. P. Wilson. 

December 8, 1899. 



Rev. J. F. Heisse, D. D. , Pastor Wesley Chapel Methodist 
Episcopal Church, City of Washington. 

Dear Dr. Greene : It was not my pleasure to be with you 
and your good people last evening in the celebration of the 
Twentieth Anniversary of your pastorate at Calvary. I felt 
honored by receiving an invitation. I certainly congratulate 
you upon such a long, fruitful, and harmonious ministry in this 
city. The rich and deserved success attending your labors fur- 
nishes a splendid inspiration to all of us, your fellow-preachers, 
to incessantly toil on. I rejoice with you in the manifestations 
of God's good providence, and with your zealous people in the 
marvelous growth of the work committed to you and to them. 
May many years of effective usefulness be yours. 

Sincerely your brother, 

J. F r Heisse, 
December 5, 1899. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 83 

Rev. C. H. Butler, D. D., Pastor Lutheran Kellar Memorial 
Church, City of Washington. 

Dkar Dr. Greene : Please accept my sincere congratula- 
tions upon the completion of twenty years of highly successful 
work in this city for " Christ and the Church." You have an 
enviable reputation for being an able and sweet-spirited Christian 
minister, and I trust that God will spare you for many years, 
and that the future may be even more largely owned of God 
than has been your useful past. I regret that two other en- 
gagements will prevent my being present with you this evening. 

Faithfully yours, 



C. H. Butler. 



December 8, 1899. 



Rev. Robert T. Jones, D. D. , Pastor First Baptist Church, 

Ithaca, N. Y. 

Let me express my most sincere congratulations over the com- 
pletion of so long and so distinguished a term of ministerial 
service with a single church. The years themselves mean a 
good deal, but when they have had put into them a success in 
religious work second to none in the country, they are doubly 
suggestive ; and I am sure this is not putting it too strongly. 
You have made Calvary Church among the famous Baptist 
churches of the country— famous alike for its organization, its 
warm fellowship, its religious influence, its growth and material 
equipment. It will be the hope of all }^our old classmates, as 
also of the Baptist ministry of our county, that you have another 
twenty years at Calvary. Few men are so loved by their church 
as you are, and few men are as affectionately regarded by their 
brother ministers. 

With warmest regards, 

Rob't T. Jones. 
December 26, 1899. 



84 LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 

Rev. W. C. Bitting, D. D., Pastor Mount Morris Baptist Church, 
New York City. 

My Dear Brother : Please allow me, through you, to 
thank the Calvary Baptist Church for the kind invitation to 
be present at the reception in honor of the Twentieth Anni- 
versary of your pastorate. I am exceedingly sorry that I could 
not enjoy the splendid occasion, which no doubt fell far short 
of being all that your members desired to express in connec- 
tion with so happy an event. 

Your whole service in the city of Washington, not only to 
your church, but as well to the other parishes of your denom- 
ination and the Christian world at large, has been most signally 
blessed. There are thousands in all parts of the country who 
honor you for what you are, and who at the same time feel a 
tender love for you personally. I shall not forget while I live 
the continuous and uninterrupted kindnesses with which you 
have marked our friendship, nor can I ever fail to remember 
the part you took in my ordination services. 

May the great Father of us all continue to bless you with 
His smile, and may the dear church which so loyally follows 
and loves you increase in all kinds of prosperity. 
Yours heartily, 

W. C. Bitting. 

December ii, 1899. 



Rev. Jiuiius W. Millard, D. D., Pastor Eutaw Place Baptist 
Church, Baltimore. 

My Dear Brother : I received an invitation to be present 
at the reception on Friday evening next, but as I shall not be 
able to be present, I send in this way my congratulations for 
such a long and God-honored pastorate, and my earnest prayers 
for the continued blessing of God upon your work. 
Sincerely and fraternally yours, 

Junius W. Millard. 
December 7, 1899. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 85 

Rev. Dr. W. T. Henry, Pastor First Baptist Church, 
Elmira, N. Y. 

Dear Dr. Greene : I wish to extend my hearty congratu- 
lations on the completion of twenty years of service. What a 
splendid work you have done for God in that time ! I do not 
wonder that your people are rejoicing, and I have no doubt 
that your own heart is glad. You have my best wishes for the 
years to come. 

Sincerely yours, 

W. T. Henry. 
December 7, 1899. 



President a,nd Mrs. Merrill, Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y. 

Mr. and Mrs. Merrill beg to extend to the church and its 
pastor their most cordial felicitations upon the celebration of 
this Twentieth Anniversary. 

December 5, 1899. 



Prof. William Newton Clarke, D. D. , Hamilton Theological 
Seminary, Department of Christian Theology, Colgate Uni- 
versity, Hamilton, N. Y. 

My Dear Dr. Greene : I wish to be considered as joining 
with all my heart in the appreciation of your service and the 
personal congratulations of the hour. You have done a noble 
work, in which I rejoice with you and with 3^our people. With 
greetings to you and to Mrs. Greene, who deserves her share in 
the occasion, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 

Wieeiam N. Cearke. 
December 5, 1899. 



86 LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 

Rev. Robert G. Seymour, D. £>., American Baptist Publication 
Societj ' , Ph ila alelph ia . 

My Dear Doctor : I was so sorry that I did not get to the 
feast. I was in Washington that morning, and then found my 
invitation on my desk when I reached home. 

Well yon deserve all the good things which come to yon. 
Yon have earned your laurels, and I hope you will live many 
3 7 ears to enjoy them. 

There is no man I admire more than a faithful minister of 
Jesus Christ. 

Put me down alwaj'S as one of your faithful friends and ad- 
mirers. 



Yours sincere^, 
December 2, 1899. 



Robert G. Seymour. 



Rev. William M. Lawrence, D. D., Pastor Second Baptist 
Church, Chicago. 

My Dear Friend : No one, I am sure, rejoices more over 
your great and genuine success than I do. My mind often 
reverts to your career as a most convincing instance of the 
guidance of the Lord. The services which you have been able 
to render the denomination and 3 T our own church are of lasting 
value, and most pronounced examples of what industry, com- 
bined with consecration, will do, especially when combined, as 
in j^our case, with abilit3^ and judgment. 

I am glad to be able to sa3 T these things, knowing as we all 
do that the3^ are true. I am sure God will continue to bless 
you and make 3^our work a jo3 T to all your friends, among whom 
I am glad to enroll my name. 

Yours ever, 

Wm. M. Lawrence. 
December 16, 1899. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS 87 

James W. Ford, Ph. D., Principal Pillsbury Academy, 
Owatonna, Minn. 

My Dear Brother Greene : It would give me very great 
pleasure to be present at the Twentieth Anniversary of the 
beginning of your pastorate next Friday evening. I congrat- 
ulate you upon the way in which God has led you, and the 
wonderful results which have crowned your work. 

Fraternally, 

James W. Ford. 
December 5, 1899. 



Telegram from Rev. Charles Hastings Dodd, Pastor Peddie 
Memorial Baptist Church, Newark, N. J. 

No one more heartily congratulates you and 3'onr great church 
on this high day of rejoicing ; regret cannot be present tonight. 

Charles Hastings Dodd. 
December 8, 1899. 



Telegram from Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., P/esident United 
Society of Christian Endeavor, Boston. 

Please give my hearty congratulations to 3^011 r beloved pastor 
this evening and wish him God's richest blessings. 

Francis E. Clark. 
December 8, 1899. 



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Mr. John Willis Baer, Secretary United Society of Christian 
Endeavor, Boston. 

My Dkar Dr. Greene : We have been honored with an 
invitation to the reception to be given to you on the occasion 
of the Twentieth Anniversary of your pastorate in Calvary 
Baptist Church. Never before has our regret been keener in 
being obliged to give up the pleasure and privilege of attend- 
ing and personally, with hundreds of others of your friends, 
having the opportunity to take you by the hand and to wish 
you God-speed in the coming years. 

Notwithstanding these days must be very busy ones for you, 
I want to say to you from the bottom of my heart how thank- 
ful to God we are that Calvary in its important w 7 ork has you 
for its pastor. You know me well enough to know that this is 
not flattery. It is just a downright, out-and-out expression of 
the heart. Ever since the first days, several years ago, that I 
listened to you and came in touch with you, I have understood 
just why it is that God uses the Calvary Baptist Church as He 
does to His honor and glory. 

Yours sincerely, 

John Willis Baer. 
December 5, 1899. 




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MEMORIAL CHAPEL BUILDING 






ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEES 



General Committee 



H. G. Jacobs, Chairman 



John E. Dawson, Secretary 



M. M. Shand 

S. W. Woodward 

Rev. Theron Outwater 

J. S. McCullough 

Gleu T. Jones 

Dr. B. L. Whitman 



Mrs. B. L,. Whitman 
Mrs. C. Edw. Mower 
Mrs. F. H. Pelouze 
W. S. Shallenberger 
N. S. Fancett 
Miss Lydia Marshall 



Mrs. W. H. Hoeke 
Owen P. Kellar 
Miss Kate White 
D. A. Chambers 
John Boyd 



Executive Committee 



S. W. Woodward 
M. M. Shand 



H. G. Jacobs, Chairman 

W. S. Shallenberger 
J. S. McCullough 



W. E. Evans 
Mrs. W. H. Hoeke 



Committee on Printing 



W. H. Pearce, Chairman W. E. Evans 



Geo. H. Judd 



Committee on Programme and Invitation 



M. M. Shand 

W. S. Shallenberger 



Dr. B. L. Whitman, Chairman 

Miss Kate White 
J. S. McCullough 



Mrs. C. Edw. Mower 



Committee on Decorations 



L. D. Bliss 
H. B. Waddy 



F. H. Jackson, Chairman 

Miss Grace Silvers 
Miss Laura Walker 



Miss A. J. Bell 



Committee on Refreshments 

Members of the Ladies' Social Circle 
Mrs, F. H. Pelouze, President 



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RECEPTION COMMITTEE 



D. A. Chambers, Chairman 



Mr. and Mrs. John Boyd 

Rev. and Mrs. Theron Outwater 

Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Jacobs 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Stickney 

Dr. and Mrs. D. S. Foster 

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hoeke 

Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Jones 

Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Fverett 

Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gilson 

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McKnew 

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Robinson 

Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Drew 

Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Mason 

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Sanders 

Mr. J. L. Hazzard and Miss Hazzard 

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Amies 

Dr. and Mrs. Dufour 

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kinnear 

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Vaughn 

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Grasty 

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hatch 

Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Downey 

Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Barnhardt 

Mr. and Mrs. C. M. D. Browne 

Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Fvans 

Mr. and Mrs. A. E- Swartwout 

Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Eowey 

Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Harban 

Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Shallenberger 

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